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Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? When Is a Forensic Accountant Worth the Investment?
Discover when hiring a forensic accountant is worth the investment in divorce. Soman Forensics explains key financial red flags, hidden asset concerns, business interests, and other situations that may justify a deeper financial investigation.


Calculation of Value vs. Valuation: What's the Difference and Why Should Family Lawyers Care?
Jason Soman of Soman Forensics explains the difference between a Calculation of Value and a full Valuation, and how family lawyers can choose the appropriate business valuation approach for divorce cases.


How to Find an $8 million Marital Asset in 8 seconds
An $8 million marital asset could be hiding in plain sight on a tax return. See why family lawyers should always review the refund section when investigating marital assets during divorce.


Tax Return Tuesday #9 - Trump Tax Returns
What can Trump’s 2020 tax return teach family lawyers? Soman Forensics examines pass-through entity losses, distributions, and why taxable income doesn’t necessarily reflect a party’s true cash flow.


Can you prove that Santa doesn't exist?
Can you prove someone doesn’t own a business or asset? In divorce cases, that question can be more complicated than it sounds. Here’s how forensic accountants approach “proving a negative” by following the financial evidence.


Paying Attention to Details in Financial Discovery
A missing page can reveal more than expected. See how careful financial discovery and attention to detail uncovered an undisclosed bank account—and why the smallest details can have a significant impact in divorce litigation.


Looking Under the Hood in a Business Valuation
Discover how Soman Forensics & Valuation CPAs “looks under the hood” of a business during divorce, examining financial records, management interviews, third-party information, and testimony to better understand a company’s true earnings and value.


Tax Return Tuesday #2 - Schedule B
Jason Soman of Soman Forensics & Valuation CPAs explains why Schedule B is an important part of tax return analysis in family law matters—and how it may help identify interest and dividend income, financial accounts, pass-through entities, and other information that warrants further investigation.


Determining Income for Real Estate Investors
Jason Soman of Soman Forensics & Valuation CPAs explains why determining income for real estate investors in divorce can be more complex than simply reviewing a tax return—and why depreciation, pass-through entities, refinancing, distributions, and other financial information may be important when evaluating true income and available cash flow.


Always Get the Mortgage Applications
Jason Soman of Soman Forensics & Valuation CPAs explains why mortgage applications can be a crucial source of information in divorce financial discovery—and how they may reveal income, accounts, assets, or other financial information disclosed to a lender but not identified elsewhere in the case.


Tax Return Tuesday #1 - Refund Section
Jason Soman of Soman Forensics & Valuation CPAs explains why family lawyers should always review the refund section of Form 1040 during divorce financial discovery—and how refunds applied to future tax years may represent marital tax assets that should not be overlooked.
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