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How to Start a Divorce Asset Search

Clients usually ask me three questions about a divorce asset search: “What do you need from me to get started?” “What can you find?” This is often followed with, “I really want bank and brokerage accounts.” “How long…
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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…

The Perils of AI Investigation – Don’t Get Caught in a Doom Loop

A great piece by Ted Gioia https://lnkd.in/eQxZ5yJ7 about the dangers of looking backward only. This is what AI does, and if you're not careful, living only by algorithms can plunge you into a doom loop. I've written consistently that generative…
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Divorce Asset Searching – A Big Return on a Small Investment

Would you be willing to invest $4,000 dollars if there were a decent chance of getting $50,000 back within six months? See if this is you or someone you know: A professional woman who has been off work for a number of years taking…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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The Value of a Divorce Asset Search: $2,000 to $5,000 Well Spent

Everyone would love to have more information, but getting information is not always free. At what point does it become too expensive to pay for more? We get this question a lot, especially when divorcing parties call us directly about our asset…
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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 It…
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Tips on Tracking Down Secret Companies

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…