Tag Archive for: finances
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…
5 Things You Need to Survive and Thrive After a Divorce
Philip Segal's lengthy interview about asset searching with divorce journalist Ilyssa Panitz is here:
https://medium.com/authority-magazine/financial-investigator-philip-segal-5-things-you-need-to-know-to-survive-and-thrive-during-and-6ab7f6cbf4b6
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The Offshore Asset Search Starter Kit
This blog has been pretty clear over the years that an offshore asset search is not for the faint of heart or anyone on a tight budget.
We have recommended that even if you think there are assets outside the U.S., you could get a better idea…
The Right Questions in Discovery
Finding assets can be satisfying work, but frustration sometimes comes in realizing that a client’s lawyers haven’t been asking the right questions in their depositions.
We have written repeatedly that getting bank account information…
How to Read Email Headers: Where Did That Email Come From?
Just as it’s nice to know what number someone is using when they call you, wouldn’t it be useful to see where someone was when they sent an email? That information is often contained in the “fine print” of an email known as the “header.”
In…
Asset Investigations and Due Diligence: Your Lawyer Helps Maintain Secrecy
In the past month, two divorcing clients contacted us and wanted asset searches performed without signing up us through their divorce lawyers. Here is the advice we gave them, as we give all our clients:
“Sign us up through your lawyer. If…
Surprise! The Super-Rich Adjust Their Behavior as Government Pays More Attention
The New York Times was half right and half wrong when it reported that the boom in “trophy homes in the sky” is over. The right part: It turns out that there is not an inexhaustible supply of people willing to spend $50 million or more…
Envelopes Stuffed with Cash and Secret Offshore Companies: how $20 million goes missing
In a dramatic divorce case unfolding in Southern California this week, Hydee Feldstein, a retired partner at a large law firm, accused her ex-husband Peter Gregora of stealing $20 million of the couple’s money over the course of their marriage. …
Tracking Down Travelers Checks
PROBLEM:
For as long as you’ve known your debtor, he’s insisted on purchasing travelers checks before going on any vacation. You didn’t really see the need, but now you’re starting to wonder if he may actually have converted some…
