Independent Valuation for Marital Dissolution and Divorce
The Valuation Group provides business valuation and financial analysis in marital dissolution matters involving closely held companies, professional practices, family businesses, ownership interests, and business assets.
Our work supports attorneys, spouses, business owners, mediators, forensic accountants, financial professionals, and advisory teams involved in determining, reviewing, negotiating, or challenging business value in divorce-related matters.
Why The Valuation Group
Divorce-related valuation work often requires separating business economics from owner economics. Value, compensation, normalization, cash flow, goodwill, control, marketability, and the parties’ financial positions must be handled with clarity.
The Valuation Group provides valuation analysis that helps counsel and advisory teams evaluate business value in settlement, mediation, and trial settings. The work is built around financial evidence, goodwill analysis where relevant, and a clear explanation of the conclusion.
We value operating companies, professional practices, family-owned businesses, partnerships, LLC interests, shareholder interests, and other privately held business assets in marital dissolution matters.
Our analysis may address enterprise value, equity value, ownership percentage, historical and projected earnings, owner compensation, related-party transactions, personal expenses, nonrecurring items, debt, working capital, and company-specific risk.
Many divorce matters involving professional practices or owner-dependent businesses require analysis of personal goodwill and enterprise goodwill.
The Valuation Group evaluates the extent to which business value is tied to the individual owner’s reputation, relationships, skill, referral sources, credentials, personal production, or continued presence, as compared with value attributable to the enterprise itself.
This analysis may be especially important in medical, dental, legal, accounting, consulting, financial advisory, brokerage, and other provider-dependent practices.
Divorce-related valuation often overlaps with income analysis. Owner compensation, discretionary expenses, perquisites, related-party transactions, nonrecurring income or expenses, and business-paid personal items may affect both business value and broader financial issues in the case.
We analyze the financial statements, tax returns, accounting records, compensation history, industry data, and other financial evidence needed to support the valuation conclusion.
In many marital dissolution matters, counsel needs to evaluate whether an opposing valuation is reasonable, complete, and supportable.
We review valuation reports, financial assumptions, normalization adjustments, goodwill conclusions, discount rates, market multiples, personal goodwill analysis, and other issues affecting the stated value. Our work helps counsel identify unsupported assumptions, methodological weaknesses, and areas requiring rebuttal or further discovery.
Related Valuation Issues
Professional Practice & Personal Goodwill Disputes
Provider-dependent practices often require analysis of whether value is attached to the individual professional or the business enterprise.Discount Analysis / DLOC & DLOM
Divorce matters involving partial ownership interests may require analysis of control, marketability, voting rights, transfer restrictions, and liquidity.Expert Witness & Litigation Support
When business value is contested, The Valuation Group provides report support, rebuttal analysis, mediation support, deposition preparation, and expert testimony assistance.LET'S TALK
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