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Valuing Private Companies in Divorce

By Philip Segal on August 14, 2023
Posted in Business, Finances

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 someone’s private company is worth.

If a U.S. company is private, it doesn’t…

Finding Banks to Subpoena Instead of Breaking the Law

By Philip Segal on May 9, 2023
Posted in Banking and Investments

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 order or subpoena, banks just are not supposed to hand over account information except in extremely limited…

Questions People Should Ask (But Often Don’t) When Starting an Asset Search

By Philip Segal on March 29, 2023
Posted in Finances, Property, Real Estate

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 are some tips on what kinds of questions you the divorcing party should be…

Would an Artificial Intelligence Asset Search Help?

By Philip Segal on January 18, 2023
Posted in Finances, Real Estate

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 program that is making professors change their exam questions and prompting fabulous cartoons about its lack…

When in Divorce Do You Need an Asset Investigator? A Forensic Accountant? Or Both?

By Philip Segal on November 8, 2022
Posted in Finances, Property

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?

  1. If you have all the pertinent records and you don’t think there is much being hidden, the forensic accountant

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How Long Does a Divorce Asset Search Take? “You Should Have Called Me Sooner”

By Philip Segal on August 5, 2022
Posted in Finances, Property

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. They want to know whether we can look for offshore assets in…

The Valuation Hints Are There: Good Financial Investigators Follow Them Up

By Philip Segal on June 15, 2022
Posted in Finances

When people come to us for financial investigations, it’s rare that the information they are seeking is right out in the open. But sometimes, the values are not very far under the surface.

When the hints are there,  it can be a matter of simple arithmetic to figure out the answer. Other times, you can…

Securities Records: Treasure Not Even Buried

By Philip Segal on May 3, 2022
Posted in Banking and Investments, Finances

We Found $60 Million in two hours, and our client wasn’t happy.

Sometimes looking for assets is like hunting for buried treasure. Other times, there’s a pot of gold under such a light dusting of soil that you can spot it in an hour or two.

That’s the way it works with securities records (covering…

The Truck Stop Case: In Divorce, Our Clients Know a Lot, but Also Very Little

By Philip Segal on March 25, 2022
Posted in Finances, Property, Real Estate

A client came to us and asked us to look for assets owned by her husband. They were going to get divorced and she needed to know what he had.

In briefing us, she told us that she didn’t know much, but one thing she was certain of was that a piece of property she…

The Value of a Divorce Asset Search: $2,000 to $5,000 Well Spent

By Philip Segal on February 25, 2022
Posted in Finances, Legal issues

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 search services.

Firstly, before you file for divorce there are lots of things…

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