by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Divorce Litigation, Valuations
Crider v. Crider, 2014 Ind. App. LEXIS 416 (Aug. 26, 2014) In a recent divorce case involving a series of family businesses in which the husband owned interests, the trial court faced considerable hurdles to arrive at a valuation of the marital estate. A small army of...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Divorce Litigation, Valuations
Diez v. Davey, 2014 Mich. App. LEXIS 2041 (Oct. 23, 2014) How does the law treat undistributed income from a parent’s S corporation for purposes of determining child support? This was the central question in a recent child custody case. The lower court relied on...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Divorce Litigation, Valuations
Hamelink v. Hamelink, 2014 Minn. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1175 (Dec. 30, 2013) Since Bernier v. Bernier, a Massachusetts divorce case in which the state’s highest court required that a valuation for equitable distribution purposes use a hybrid tax-affecting model to account...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Divorce Litigation, Valuations
Divorce is one of the most common reasons for obtaining a business valuation, and has led to many court decisions. Throughout the United States, there are a myriad of laws and case law, and making sense of this patchwork quilt is difficult at best. When developing a...
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Court Rulings, Divorce Litigation, Valuations
Ward v. Ward, 2014 W.Va. LEXIS 128 (Feb. 14, 2014) In a divorce case, the husband appealed to the state’s highest court, arguing that the lower courts accepted a valuation of his business interest that did not reflect the company as it was on the valuation date....
by Royer Advisors | Dec 11, 2024 | Divorce Litigation, Valuations
Hill v. Hill, 2014 Tex. App. LEXIS 292 (Jan. 9, 2014) What happens to the commercial goodwill of a big accounting firm when a principal gets divorced? In a recent Texas appeals case, the wife accused the trial court of failing to account for commercial goodwill in...
