The Financial Expert Guide that belongs in every Legal and Valuation Library

Financial issues are often the cornerstone issue in dissolution of marriage cases. Contests over the division of marital assets and debts, the determination of whether individual assets are part of the marital estate or one spouse’s separate property, and disagreements over value and allocation frequently merge to become one of, if not the, primary areas of focus of protracted domestic relations litigation in dissolution cases. If a private, closely-held business is part of this property mix, spousal disputes frequently become even more charged and contentious, and the litigation spreads to embrace financial and valuation experts who are engaged to perform a host of financial services, ranging, in no particular order, from the valuation of assets, particularly privately-held companies, asset tracing to assist the court in classifying the asset, or the residual component of an asset, as either marital or separate property, and, where suspicions are highest, engaging in the financial forensics necessary to identify and locate concealed or mis-valued assets.

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