Now and then, we get asked to do an asset search on a doctor and these can be challenging ones.
Doctors are afraid of getting sued. Some who are not even married or who have no inkling that divorce is on the horizon are often inclined to make themselves look “judgement-proof.” That means you can
When you need an asset search while contemplating or in the midst of a divorce, there are the usual kinds and the highly complex kinds.
It’s one thing to look at a guy with two houses, a small fleet of trucks and two heating and cooling businesses. You may find an extra house, or that
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
