Finding Banks to Subpoena Instead of Breaking the Law
We’ve written before about the illegal trade in bank account information that a lot of investigators and lawyers get mixed up in. See for instance That Bank Account Information Your Investigator Got? Probably a Crime.
Without a court…
Questions People Should Ask (But Often Don’t) When Starting an Asset Search
We’ve written many times about the questionnaire we hand out to clients who want a divorce asset search. If you want one, just contact us and we’ll send it along.
Based on the many questionnaires we’ve reviewed over the years, here…
Would an Artificial Intelligence Asset Search Help?
Could someone getting divorced use artificial intelligence to conduct an asset search? Sure, it just wouldn’t be a very good one.
It’s hard to get that far into your day right now without hearing about ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence…
Who Is NOT a Good Referral for Our Firm? Lawbreakers!
I’m asked all the time when I meet other professionals, “Who’s a good referral for you?”
I usually answer, “Litigators are good – if you want to see if it’s worth suing, or you want to look into the people on the other side, and…
FTX Warnings vs Madoff Warnings: What was the Difference?
Investors in Madoff Securities and FTX were both warned, but by different sets of people.
If it turns out to be true that without customer knowledge FTX took billions of dollars of customer account money to invest in a risky company owned…
When in Divorce Do You Need an Asset Investigator? A Forensic Accountant? Or Both?
In doing our investigations for assets in divorce, we often work with a forensic accountant. Sometimes they bring us into the case and sometimes it’s the reverse.
When do you need one, the other, or both?
If you have all the pertinent…
How Long Does a Divorce Asset Search Take? “You Should Have Called Me Sooner”
Sadly, the answer is usually, “Longer than you’re willing to give me. You should have called me sooner.”
We get inquiries from time to time from divorcing parties who are going to trial within the next month or even just a few weeks.…
The Valuation Hints Are There: Good Financial Investigators Follow Them Up
When people come to us for financial investigations, it’s rare that the information they are seeking is right out in the open. But sometimes, the values are not very far under the surface.
When the hints are there, it can be a matter of…
Securities Records: Treasure Not Even Buried
We Found $60 Million in two hours, and our client wasn’t happy.
Sometimes looking for assets is like hunting for buried treasure. Other times, there’s a pot of gold under such a light dusting of soil that you can spot it in an hour or two.
That’s…
The Truck Stop Case: In Divorce, Our Clients Know a Lot, but Also Very Little
A client came to us and asked us to look for assets owned by her husband. They were going to get divorced and she needed to know what he had.
In briefing us, she told us that she didn’t know much, but one thing she was certain of was that…
