Forensic accounting for family law and civil litigation.

Family law

Support, distribution, and the money questions that decide contested dissolutions.

Income available for support

Normalizing business and professional income; identifying perquisites and personal expenses run through a business; imputed income where the record supports it.

Lifestyle and need

The marital standard of living reconstructed from bank, card, and brokerage records, organized to the categories the court will use.

Tracing and classification

Marital versus non-marital property, commingled accounts, and enhancement of non-marital assets during the marriage.

Equitable distribution

Schedules of assets and liabilities, valuation dates, and proposed divisions that reconcile to the record.

Dissipation and waste

Transfers, spending, and concealment outside the ordinary course, quantified and documented.

Temporary support

Rapid analyses for early hearings, built from the records available at the time and updated as discovery arrives.

Tax consequences of settlement

The after-tax effect of proposed divisions and support structures, so the numbers being negotiated are the numbers the parties will keep.

Closely held businesses and owner compensation

Analysis of business cash flow, owner compensation, and perquisites; review and critique of business valuation reports and their assumptions.

Stock compensation, retirement benefits, and trust interests

Classification, valuation dates, and division mechanics for deferred compensation, retirement accounts, and beneficial interests.

Financial affidavits

Preparation and review of financial affidavits that reconcile to the underlying records.

Fraud investigation and civil disputes

Misappropriation, tracing, and disputes among owners.

Fraud and embezzlement

Investigation of misappropriation, reconstruction of incomplete records, quantification of loss, and support for insurance claims and referrals.

Partner, shareholder, and member disputes

Accountings, distributions, related-party dealings, and disputed transactions among owners.

Tracing of funds

Following money through accounts, entities, and transactions to establish source and destination.

Lost profits, diminution in value, and other damages analyses are handled by the economic damages practice.

Testimony and trial support

Analysis that holds up when it is challenged.

Expert reports

Written reports prepared to meet disclosure requirements and to be read closely by opposing counsel.

Deposition and trial

Testimony at deposition, evidentiary hearings, and trial, with demonstrative exhibits prepared for the fact-finder.

Rebuttal

Critique of opposing experts’ methods, assumptions, and arithmetic.

Mediation and settlement

Scenario analysis and settlement schedules that let counsel test proposals against the numbers.

Neutral and collaborative roles

Jointly retained neutral financial expert, collaborative financial professional, and non-testifying consulting expert, in addition to retained expert work for petitioners and respondents.

Anthony has been accepted or presented as an expert in the Ninth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Judicial Circuits of Florida, including Brevard, Indian River, Martin, Orange, St. Lucie, and Seminole Counties. A detailed testimony history is available to retaining counsel on request.

Working with counsel

How an engagement begins.

Engagements are opened through retaining counsel or directly by the client, beginning with a conflict check, followed by a written engagement letter and retainer. Scope is defined to the questions in the case and adjusted as the case develops.