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 of where they may be by searching U.S.

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 without a court order is illegal (other than discovering it on a shared computer or in records lying around). When we

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.  Feldstein claims Gregora hid the money in secret offshore companies, investment funds, and, in by

Back in January, we posted a story about a Canadian investigative company whose owners, Michael Grontis, Cullen Johnson, and Elaine White, had fleeced their customers out of millions by promising to find assets hidden in offshore accounts.  Instead, they created fraudulent bank records and passed them off as real.  These crooked investigators’ work has surfaced

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 of his funds into travelers checks to hide money from you.

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SOLUTIONS:

Although travelers checks