Forensic accounting support for family law attorneys in high-net-worth divorce cases, focused on tracing separate property, uncovering hidden income and assets, and delivering litigation-ready findings.
Why Aletheia
- Deep investigation experience: Led by a former FBI Forensic Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), & Certified Forensic Interviewer (CFI) with experience from hundreds of investigations.
- Valuation credentials and experience: Led by a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) with knowledge and experience to understand the impacts to business value hidden income and assets may cause.
- Technology-enabled efficiency: We leverage bank, investment, and credit card account statement transaction extraction technology to support our analysis to add efficiency and reduce costs.
- Litigation-ready work product: Led by a Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF) whose findings & reports are designed to withstand deposition and trial scrutiny.
Tracing Separate Property
High-net-worth divorces often involve premarital, inherited, and gifted investments, such as publicly traded stocks and real estate. Our tracing identifies whether certain property is marital or separate.
Content
Tracing Separate Property for Ohio Divorces (Article)
Representative Matter
Managing Member James H. Rumph traced and analyzed both premarital-owned company stock and residence equity from over 20 years prior and their related growth. This tracing and analysis resulted in millions of dollars of property that had experienced significant growth being excluded from marital property division.
Uncovering Hidden Income and Assets
Income and assets are often hidden in divorce cases, especially with business owners. We help uncover this hidden value.
Representative Matter
Mr. Rumph analyzed a bar’s bank deposits and tax returns to summarize indisputable evidence that upon separation revenue and funds were being hidden from the owner’s spouse. In doing so, Mr. Rumph not only proved a significant drop in cash deposits but also a plummeting gross profit percentage, indicating costs were still being incurred but the corresponding revenue was not being deposited into the bar’s bank account. Upon reviewing Mr. Rumph’s summary, the divorcing spouse recovered her share of the funds and an increased business value for division.