Forensic accounting and business valuation for litigation.
Samons Harris works with family law and civil litigation attorneys from early case assessment through discovery, expert reports, deposition, and trial. Two disciplines, coordinated from the first call.
Serving clients and counsel throughout Florida for their forensic accounting needs, and throughout the United States for their business valuation needs.
What we do
Financial analysis built to be cross-examined.
Every engagement is led by the partner who signs the report and gives the testimony.
Forensic Accounting
Income available for support, lifestyle and need, tracing of marital and non-marital funds, equitable distribution, and fraud investigation.
Explore forensic accounting
Business Valuation
Closely held companies and professional practices valued for marital dissolution, shareholder and partner disputes, damages, and transactions.
Explore business valuation
Economic Damages
Lost profits, diminution in value, business interruption, intellectual property damages, and rebuttal of opposing damages experts.
Explore economic damages
Expert Testimony
Reports prepared to disclosure standards, deposition and trial testimony, rebuttal of opposing experts, and support at mediation.
How we work with counselWhy counsel retains us
Two disciplines, one file, partner-led from the first call.
Court-tested work product
Analyses are built to evidentiary standards from the outset. Every figure traces to a document, and every assumption is stated.
Valuation and forensic work that agree with each other
When a matter needs both, the analyses share facts, dates, and definitions, so the experts never contradict each other on the stand.
Partner-led engagements
The partner you retain directs the analysis, signs the report, and gives the testimony.
Built for the pace of litigation
Temporary-support analyses for early hearings; full reports on the court’s schedule, not ours.
The partners
Each practice is led by the person who does the work.
Anthony D. Samons, CPA/CFF/PFS, CDFA
Melbourne, Florida
More than 31 years in public accounting, the last 13 devoted exclusively to forensic accounting and litigation support in family law matters. More than 330 engagements and testimony in more than 100 cases.
Full biography
William Harris, ASA, CFA
Miami, Florida
Accredited Senior Appraiser and Chartered Financial Analyst with 20 years in business valuation, economic damages, and litigation support. Qualified as an expert witness in Florida state and federal courts.
Full biographyCredentials and affiliations
Insights
Written for the attorneys who retain us.
Before temporary support: the six records I need first
Six record groups that let a forensic CPA establish current income, supported expenses, and the real cash gap before a Florida temporary support hearing.
Personal or enterprise goodwill: what survives the owner?
How Florida divorce valuations separate personal from enterprise goodwill, test which earnings can transfer, and read a noncompete or an offer without being misled.
Fair value or fair market value: read before the buyout
Why fair value and fair market value can produce different buyout results in Florida, and which agreements, rights, premises, and dates the expert needs before starting.
Offices
Melbourne and Miami. Engagements statewide.
Melbourne
1901 South Harbor City BoulevardSuite 510
Melbourne, Florida 32901
Miami
1000 Brickell Avenue, Suite 715PMB 5088
Miami, Florida 33131
Have a matter to discuss?
Start with a conflict check. Send the parties and the court, and we will confirm availability.
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