The attorney can help you protect your net worth by helping you to prioritize what assets within the net worth are most important to you. That attorney can also put together a team of economic experts who can help formulate the theories in the presentation of the case to assist you in obtaining those portions of your net worth that you deem to be most important. You have to remember that part of your net worth will be going to your spouse so the real issue is how do you protect what’s most important to you.