Tag Archive for: matrimonial asset search
How Soon Should You Start a Divorce Asset Search?
If you’re thinking that you may be divorced in the near or medium term, the answer isn’t necessarily “start now,” but it’s not too early to start organizing your information.
Step 1: What Do I Know, and What is Missing?
It’s never…
Segal On the Find Me the Money Podcast: Using an Investigator in Divorce
Tracy Coenen is a nationally recognized forensic accountant working exclusively on divorce matters. She is also the author of The Divorce Money Guide, which helps women figure out what they need to know in contemplating divorce. https://www.divorcemoneyguide.com
Tracy…
What Makes a Good Investigator?
As with a good meal, a few simple ingredients, combined in the right way.
Good cooking consists of simple ingredients that nevertheless may take time to add to your meal. Garlic powder is easier to deploy than freshly peeled, mashed and diced…
Issue Spotting in Investigation
Remember those law school exams that depended not as much on getting the right answer as on issue spotting? Usually you got a fact pattern and you had to look at all the ways those facts would present interesting legal questions for a judge…
Valuing Private Companies in Divorce
The toughest nut to crack in many divorce asset searches is the private company. While people always want immediate access to bank accounts (and aren’t allowed to get them without discovery), you can always start to try to figure out what…
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…
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.…
