Practice II · Family-law financial analysisDivorce asset & income analysis.
Financial analysis for family-law matters where assets, income or business interests are contested. The work sets what has been disclosed beside what the records show, and documents the difference clearly for counsel.
The disclosure, and the records.
Most of the work is careful comparison. A difference is not proof of wrongdoing; it is a question the records should answer.
The areas the work examines.
The scope of each engagement is agreed with counsel. These are the areas it usually draws on.
- Asset identification and tracing
- Locating accounts, property and holdings, and following assets through transfers, including across entities and jurisdictions.
- Income analysis
- Establishing income for child support and alimony purposes from bank records, tax returns and business records, not only from what is reported.
- Business interests
- Examining ownership interests, how a business records and distributes earnings, and what that means for valuation.
- Multiple entities
- Connecting companies, trusts and accounts that move money between them, so the whole picture can be read at once.
- Financial history
- Placing the marital finances in date order, so that changes in income, spending or holdings can be seen in context.
Conclusions follow the documents, not the other way round.
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Records first
Analysis starts from bank statements, tax returns, business records, financial affidavits and loan applications.
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Through counsel
Requests for records are framed with the attorney, so discovery asks for what the analysis will actually need.
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Measured findings
Findings are written in plain terms, with the records relied on and the limits of what they show.
Matters of this kind.
Drawn from the practice’s exemplar cases. Details are generalized to protect the people involved.
Global asset tracing
Offshore bank record analysis and tracing of complex corporate structures in a high-net-worth divorce, verifying asset transfers.
Florida court
Affidavit validation
Bank account analysis and lifestyle expense reconciliation to test sworn financial disclosures in divorce proceedings.
Florida court
Business valuation
Valuation of a services business, contested ownership interests, fund flows and calculation of true net income for child support.
Florida Circuit Court
Every matter differs; past work does not predict the result of another engagement.
All exemplar casesCommon questions.
About timing, records and confidentiality. Questions about a specific matter are best raised directly.
Ideally early, before discovery requests are made, so that the right records are requested once. Involvement later in a matter is still possible, but the records available may be narrower.
Bank and credit card statements, tax returns, business financial records, financial affidavits and loan applications. An initial review identifies which are missing and which matter most.
Yes. Income analysis for support purposes is part of the practice. It looks at how a business records and distributes earnings, not only at the salary an owner reports.
Discreetly. How documents are supplied, stored and returned should be agreed at the outset, before anything is sent.