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When you go through a divorce, almost every aspect of your life can be affected depending on how serious each side is intent on dividing every little thing.  It does not always happen but I have had many cases where the divorcing spouses even accounted for and divided credit card points and airline miles.  In one such case, we had to handle the issue of what would happen with the parties' season tickets for the Detroit Pistons.  This blog is written to very generally address the issue of what might happen to season tickets for the Pistons in a divorce in Michigan.  If you are facing a divorce or separation and have concerns about your own situation, please do not hesitate to contact us by clicking on this link or calling (248) 608-4123,

What Happens To Detroit Pistons Season Tickets In A Michigan Divorce?

In many cases, one spouse will just agree to allow the other spouse to keep the tickets.  This makes sense in many cases because only one of them actually uses the tickets or wants them and the other spouse does not want to have to pay for them because of the expense involved.  However in some cases, either because both spouses are fans or due to some vindictiveness, both spouses will make a claim for the tickets.

Season tickets are interesting because they do not fall exactly into the normal types of property that are divided as it is really a right to purchase future tickets every year.  Further the tickets have an expense but that is a future expense, the actual cost of the tickets each year.  But it is harder to put a value on waht is actually being divided, the right or reservation to purchase these (hopefully well located) seats or tickets in the future.  

While i am sure that we could have hired experts in the case to put a dollar value on this future right to buy the tickets (who would have charged the clients a significant sum), instead during mediation, the parties agreed that they would equally divide the games between themselves so that each one would have two tickets for an equal number of games.  They also agreed that they would first offer the extra ticket for each game to their children before allowing someone else to use them.  They agreed that each year that they renewed the tickets, they would go through the schedule and take turns selecting which games each one of them would get and equally share the yearly cost of the tickets.

This was an interesting issue but somewhat rare and there are other ways we could have handled it but in that case the above solution made the most sense.  There are many issues that must be addressed in every divorce case and each case is different.  If you are potentially getting divorced, you should schedule a consultation with us to get a better understanding of how the law may affect you by clicking on this link or calling (248) 608-4123.