One of the most frequently-asked questions new divorce-related clients ask us is: “If I need a forensic accountant can you do that?”
The answer we give is that we are not forensic accountants, but you probably need us anyway because forensic accountants don’t do what we do. And, you may need a forensic accountant as
Clients who hire us for asset searches always want to know what we find. As often as not, the big news after an asset search is when we don’t find something we should be seeing but are not.
When someone is concealing the truth, they often put in place a lie to throw you off.
We’ve written plenty about why it makes sense to do an onshore search within the U.S. when you’re looking for offshore assets. See for instance our Offshore Assets Playbook and here.
What comes as news to many clients is how secretive people are allowed to be with their assets right here in the U.S.
It may all come crashing down, but if it doesn’t the cryptocurrency market is your newest headache in trying to find hidden assets.
Long written off by many as a joke, cryptocurrencies are still dismissed by many as a bubble waiting to burst. Just the other day, the Wall Street Journal ran this piece arguing
I was interviewed at length today for the #1 podcast on divorce planning, Divorce and Your Money. Among the detailed points covered:
Clients come to us all the time with the suspicion that their spouse has stashed assets offshore. The problem is that they are not sure where.
If there is one thing that is as difficult as getting money returned from an overseas location, it can be figuring out which overseas location we are even going
If an investigator told you he could get you some cocaine or find you a way to conduct illegal business with North Korea, would you say “go ahead” simply based on the idea that it could be done?
We ask people this question fairly often when they ask us to get bank account information of
We wrote not too long ago here about our methodology for tracking down offshore accounts and how difficult and expensive this process can be. Well, it looks like locating offshore accounts may have just become a tiny bit easier.
As reported in The New York Times, earlier this year, the International Consortium of Investigative
