What conveys the truth more effectively? A snapshot of a person’s values and accomplishments in the form of a quotation? Or a long essay about that person that will contain the short clip but surround it with other facts that could contradict or water down the single line (or build on the quote and infuse […]
Some people just like privacy, but others form companies with a view to concealing any link between that company and themselves. If you are hiding assets from creditors, that’s a plus (for you, not the creditors). Picking a company name can be more difficult than many think. A lot of the obvious company names are […]
Some people just like privacy, but others form companies with a view to concealing any link between that company and themselves. If you are hiding assets from creditors, that’s a plus (for you, not the creditors). Picking a company name can be more difficult than many think. A lot of the obvious company names are […]
For anyone who has ever tried to play pool, it quickly becomes obvious that the best way to get the ball in the pocket isn’t always the most direct. If there’s another ball in the way or the angle doesn’t work, redirecting the ball off one of the cushions can be the best option. Even […]
Now and again a client comes to us for information on a spouse’s assets. But if the client has already signed a power of attorney, the search could involve both spouses’ assets. A power of attorney between married people could work like this: Wife grants Husband the power to buy and sell things on Wife’s […]
Investigators are in the business of gathering evidence. Beyond gathering, there is the equally important job of analyzing. Good fact gatherers need to report on evidence but also where it comes from and how reliable it may be. Evidence was my favorite law school course by far (so perhaps not surprising I work with evidence […]
Most of us in the business can remember clients who call us to say something like, “We’ve done some pretty serious Googling, so you probably won’t find anything.” We had a prospective client some years ago who said exactly those words, and I wrote them down at the time. It got to the point that […]
Fine print doesn’t mean print that’s illegible or incomprehensible, but it’s there for a good reason. The fine print is where you will often find an important potential marital asset that can easily slip off the net-worth statement divorcing parties need to provide: Restricted stock units (RSU’s). These are not the same thing as restricted […]
In a partially hilarious, partially disturbing article this week in The Wall Street Journal, “Facebook Has No Sense of Humor,” the Editor in Chief of the satirical website The Babylon Bee related that two patently ridiculous “news” stories had recently been fact-checked by Snopes: The Onion’s “Shelling From Royal Caribbean’s M.S. ‘Allure’ Sinks Carnival Cruise […]
If asked to describe the attributes of a good investigator, “empathetic” is not the first word that would come to mind for most people. For anyone looking for hidden assets, though, empathy is a must. Empathy means “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another,” and it’s a critical tool for any professional […]
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