Litigating Financial Issues in a Family Law Case - Webcast
June 2017
Litigating Financial Issues in a Family Law Case
Program Highlights:
- Selecting and Engaging the Financial Expert
- Essential Components of the Financial Analysis and Report Preparation
- Preparing the Expert Report: Attorney-Expert Cooperation
- Presenting and Defending the Financial Expert's Report in Deposition and Trial
- Judicial Comments and Recommendations on Financial Issues and the Use of Experts in Marital Dissolution Cases
...and much more!
Program Description:
Litigating financial issues in a family law case can seem dauntingly complex.
Attend this Seminar and maximize the benefit to your clients through effective business appraisal and financial analysis.
First, find out how to best identify and screen your financial expert and the scope of the assignment. Is there a need for financial forensics, asset tracing, tax planning, and spendable income analyses?
The next steps are the components of the valuation analysis and report preparation itself. What are the applicable legal standards and the essential accounting and valuation principles that are the foundation of a successful family law matter in litigation? Learn the key published Colorado and other recognized legal standards applicable generally and specifically to family law valuation analysis.
Next, your expert faculty will address for you communications between expert and attorney, including privilege and discovery issues, client meetings and discussions, and finalizing the report in compliance with the applicable rules and case law.
Then arrives the litigation phase of the case: you have to present and defend the valuation report in deposition and trial. You will gain insight on the use of demonstratives in the report and at trial, the defense of the expert opinions at deposition, and how to deal with unforeseen or unanticipated events before and during trial on the valuation analysis.
Finally, you will get judicial comments and recommendations on financial issues and the use of experts in marital dissolution cases. The closing keynote will focus on what judges look for from financial experts.
Nowhere else but CBA/CLE will you receive this kind of knowledge and experience on litigating financial issues in a family law case.
Don’t wait. Register today.
Agenda:
8:30 – 8:40am
Welcome and Introduction
8:40 – 9:00am
Learning Objectives for the Day and Introduction of the Model Case Study Learning Tools
Presented by John Tatlock, Esq., and Ron Seigneur, ASA, CPA/ABV/CFF CVA, Program Co-Chairs
9:00 – 10:15am
Selecting and Engaging the Financial Expert
This segment will address identification and screening of financial experts, identification of the scope of the assignment, preliminary discussion of legal, factual, accounting, and related issues or problems with the engagement; terms of the engagement; agreement on working arrangements between attorney and expert; terms of the retention engagement agreement; and production of required information to the expert; determining ancillary needs for financial forensics, asset tracing, tax planning and spendable income analyses.
Presented by Steve Epstein, Esq., and Kevin Yeanoplos, ASA, CPA/ABV/CFF
10:15 – 10:30am
Networking Break
10:30 – 11:45am
Essential Components of the Financial Analysis and Report Preparation
This segment will explore the applicable legal standards and the essential accounting and valuation principles that are the foundation of a successful family law matter in litigation. The session will use the model report and exhibits to reinforce key financial and business appraisal concepts (e.g., standard of value, valuation approaches and methods, use and retention of data and data sources in the valuation analysis, and all the related topics that constitute the nuts and bolts of the actual valuation work). The presentation will include a discussion of the key published Colorado and other recognized legal standards applicable generally and specifically to family law valuation analysis.
Presented by John Tatlock, Esq., Halleh Omidi, Esq. and Kevin Yeanoplos, ASA, CPA/ABV/CFF
11:45am – 12:45pm
Lunch Break on Your Own
12:45 – 2:00pm
Preparing the Expert Report: Attorney-Expert Cooperation
This part of the program will address communications between expert and attorney, scheduling; privilege and discovery issues (pre-2015 and post-2015 rule changes for experts), preparation and review of drafts; data demands; client meetings and discussions; obtaining the necessary data; problems that arise during the investigation and analysis; and finalizing the report in compliance with the applicable rules and case law.
Presented by John Tatlock, Esq., and Ron Seigneur, ASA, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA
2:00 – 3:15pm
Presenting and Defending the Financial Expert’s Report in Deposition and Trial
This segment will focus on the litigation phase of the case and will include preparing the expert for deposition and trial; use of demonstratives in the report and at trial; defense of the expert opinions at deposition; special issues relating to trial presentation of the expert report; using the primary affirmative expert as a rebuttal expert; preparing a rebuttal expert report and expert rebuttal testimony for trial; and how to deal with unforeseen or unanticipated events before and during trial on the valuation analysis.
Presented by:
Ron Seigneur, Moderator
Halleh Omidi, Esq.
John Tatlock, Esq.
Tiffany Nelson, CPA/ABV, CVA
Kevin Yeanoplos, ASA, CPA/ABV/CFF
3:15 – 3:30pm
Networking Break
3:30 – 4:30pm
Judicial Comments and Recommendations on Financial Issues and the Use of Financial Experts in Marital Dissolution Cases
The closing keynote will focus on what judges look for from financial experts; problems that attorneys create for themselves, their experts, and their clients through a flawed expert report and inadequate evidentiary presentation at trial; perceptions regarding the applicable legal and evidentiary standards; and presentation strengths and weaknesses for attorneys and experts (sponsoring and rebuttal) at hearing or trial.
Presented by the Honorable David J. Stevens
4:30pm
Adjourn
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $369.00 |
| CBA Member | $339.00 |
| CBA Family Law Section Member | $299.00 |
| Paralegal/Legal Support Staff | $259.00 |
| New Lawyer Edge Partner | $169.50 |
| CLEACCESSPASS--ELITE Pass Holder | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 7.00
- Ethics Credits: 0.00
- EDI Credits:
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Sponsor Information
- The Essential Components of the Financial Analysis and Report Preparation
- How to Prepare the Expert Report and How to Improve Attorney-Expert Cooperation
- Recommendations Made Regarding Financial Issues and the Use of Experts in Marital Dissolution Cases