Our forensic accounting experience focuses on all financial matters relating to family law issues including divorce, paternity, child support, modifications and mediations.

Services for family law matters can include:

• Asset tracing: usually bank and brokerage accounts
• Lifestyle and needs analysis: typically used in cases involving alimony
• Marital vs. nonmarital analysis: typically involving retirement accounts
• Equitable distribution: splitting of the marital assets and liabilities
• Child support calculations: based on factors including parental time sharing, insurance coverage for the child(ren), childcare expenses and income levels
• Alimony scenarios: determination of needs and ability to pay
• Comingling and transmutation: determination of whether the nature or character of an account lost its nonmarital status
• Passive vs. nonpassive appreciation: can help determine whether a premarital/nonmarital asset remains nonmarital throughout the marriage
• Assisting in the preparation of financial affidavits: accuracy is critical for this document, which is often the sole source of financial information during court hearings
• Discovery and mandatory disclosure: determining what additional information and documents are required to formulate opinions
• Income determination: usually involving smaller family and privately held businesses
• Business valuations: the determination of value for divorce differs from valuations done for other purposes

Family Law: Litigation

In litigation matters, we provide financial analysis, information and expert witness testimony at the direction of your attorney. Many times, this involves preparing for and attending mediation, temporary relief hearings, discovery hearings, settlement negotiations and trial.

Family Law: Collaborative

The collaborative process differs from litigation in that the parties work together to determine outcomes that best meet everyone’s needs instead of relying on a judge’s determination. Utilizing the Collaborative Process, each party works with a collaborative attorney, a neutral mental health professional and a neutral financial professional. Your dedicated team of professionals work to reach the goals and interests of everyone involved in the divorce process, even your children. The Collaborative Divorce provides families and divorcing spouses a private and peaceful out of court process to resolve their differences in a mature manner. The Collaborative Divorce Process allows families to discuss their financial needs, both present and future, in a respectful environment. In addition, using this approach can significantly reduce costs compared to the litigation process and help you start that next chapter in your life.

We provide business valuations for the following reasons.

• Divorce
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Breach of contract
• Estate planning
• Shareholder litigation
• Gifting
• Buy-outs/Buy-ins
• Bankruptcy

We provide the following analyses to determine general business economic losses including contract disputes, losses from breach of noncompete agreement, etc.

• Loss-profit analysis
• Yardstick analysis
• Lost-value analysis
• Personal injury: including lost income, benefits, etc.
• But-for analysis

Alfred Zeiler, President of Florida Forensic Accounting, is experienced in providing expert testimony in matters involving family law, economic damages, personal injury, business valuation and business disputes including shareholder litigation. He has testified in courts across South and Central Florida.