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A forensic report for every divorce

Give it the separation date, the filing date and the reported income. CounselPro reads every statement across every account and entity, balances every month, and writes the report for the marital estate, each finding cited to its page.

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Forensic report · family lawHendricks · 23 accounts · 4 entities
Separation14 Sep 2024
Filed3 Oct 2024
Reported income$41,000 / mo
Reported, monthly$41,000On the financial declaration
Deposited, monthly$187,000Read from the statements · 4.6×
Where the monthly deposits come from, and the statement page each is read from
SourceMonthly
Salary · Harrow Capital Partners$38,000
Distributions · Harrow Capital Partners LP$96,500
Wires · Alder Ridge Holdings LLC$52,500
Deposited, monthly$187,000

Potential undisclosed income. Distributions and wires from two entities held in one name may warrant scrutiny (····8830.pdf, p. 2).

The questions

What a divorce turns on

Five questions come up in every marital estate. Each is answered on the records, and each answer keeps its page.

01

Is the income on the declaration the income in the bank?

Income computed from the deposits, internal transfers set aside, beside the figure on the disclosure.

Income verification
02

What left the marital accounts before separation?

Every account filtered to the months around the separation date, and what moved.

Asset tracing in the report
03

Who is on the other side of the transfers?

Payees resolved across accounts, and a recipient seen nowhere else in the case flagged.

Related parties
04

What does the standard of living cost?

Spending by period and category, beside the income it was reported on, for the support calculation.

Lifestyle analysis
05

Will every figure survive cross?

Every month balanced to its printed totals, and every row keeps the page it was read from.

How reconciliation works

The separation line

Five accounts on one timeline, with the dates the case turns on ruled across it

The money moves around two dates, the separation and the filing. Filter every account to the months around them and the pattern reads as one shape.

Five marital accounts across eighteen months, January 2024 to June 2025, with the separation on 14 September 2024 and the filing on 3 October 2024 ruled across the grid.
AccountJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJun
Joint checking····4021 · both names
Personal checking····0127 · one name
Alder Ridge Holdings LLC····5512 · related entity
Operating account····8830 · partnership distributions
New personal····7719 · one name, opened Oct 2024
Ordinary activityDistributionsFlagged for reviewAccount opened

Before separation

Three round wires of $125,000 to a related LLC, each followed within four days by a transfer out of the receiving account (····0127, p. 14).

At separation

The monthly partnership distributions into the operating account stop in September (····8830, p. 9).

After the filing

An account in one name opens in October, and from November the same distributions land there (····7719, p. 1).

The report for a marital estate

Five of its twelve sections are written for a divorce

Pick family law, give it three facts, and the report writes the sections a marital estate needs, each finding cited to its page. Hidden assets, the standard of living and the timing around separation are written up here.

The intake

Separation dateFiling dateReported income

The sections a divorce leans on

  1. 02Income analysisTrue income from the deposits against the figure on the declaration.
  2. 05Related party transactionsMoney moving to and from connected people and entities.
  3. 07Asset tracingPurchases, concealment and dissipation in the months before the line.
  4. 09Lifestyle and standard of livingWhat the household spent, measured against what it reported.
  5. 11Forensic timelineThe sequence of events around the separation and the filing.
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The Hendricks divorce

7. Asset tracing

Between March and May 2024 the personal checking account wired $125,000.00 three times to Alder Ridge Holdings LLC, an entity that appears in no other account in the case. Each wire was followed within four days by a transfer of between $94,000.00 and $110,000.00 out of the receiving account.

The transfers section 7 rests on
DateFromAmount
11 Mar 2024Personal ····0127$125,000.00
15 Mar 2024Alder Ridge LLC ····5512$110,000.00
9 Apr 2024Personal ····0127$125,000.00
12 Apr 2024Alder Ridge LLC ····5512$94,000.00
6 May 2024Personal ····0127$125,000.00

Potential dissipation of marital funds. The pattern of round wires followed by transfers out in the spring before separation may warrant scrutiny (····0127.pdf, p. 14).

The partnership distributions recorded in the operating account through September 2024 resume in November in an account held in one name, opened the month before. The receiving account is absent from the schedule of assets.

8. Transfer pattern analysis

Deposits into the account opened in October follow the monthly rhythm of the distributions that stopped in September, in the same amounts, from the same payer.

Eight deposits of $96,500.00 reach ····7719 between November 2024 and June 2025, $772,000.00 in all, each from Harrow Capital Partners LP. It is the amount the operating account received from that payer every month before September.

11. Forensic timeline analysis

The three wires to Alder Ridge Holdings LLC clear on 11 March, 9 April and 6 May 2024, between 187 and 131 days before the separation on 14 September 2024. The transfers out of Alder Ridge on 15 March and 12 April clear four and three days after the wires they follow.

The distributions into the operating account stop in September, the month of the separation. The account ····7719 opens in October, the month of the filing on 3 October 2024, and the first distribution lands there in November.

The declaration reports income of $41,000.00 a month. The deposits in section 2 average $187,000.00 a month, and $149,000.00 of that comes from two entities, Harrow Capital Partners LP and Alder Ridge Holdings LLC.

The coverage summary holds every monthly cycle of the five accounts in this section from January 2024, or the month the account opened, to June 2025, so the sequence above rests on every month of the period.

Both sides

Your client, or the other side

The same reading works on your client's records before mediation and on the other side's production after it.

Your client

Income for supportCash flow available for support, computed from the deposits.
Dissipation exposureThe withdrawals and transfers the other side will find, found first.
Separate propertyPre-marital funds traced through the marital accounts, hop by hop.
The financial affidavitChecked against the bank records before it is sworn.

The other side

Undisclosed incomeDeposits beyond the reported income: the second business, the bonus, the cash.
Hidden assetsThe premium, the storage fee and the exchange transfer that point to property off the schedule.
Standard of livingWhat the household spent, beside what it reported, to support or impute income.
DissipationThe spending and transfers before separation, isolated by date and recipient.

One divorce, read end to end

An illustrative matter, from the production to the hearing

Twenty-three accounts across four entities and a declaration that put household income at $41,000 a month. Every month balanced to what the bank printed.

41,206

Transactions read across 23 accounts and four years

$375,000

Wired to a related LLC in three round transfers before separation

2

Entities paying into the accounts, beside a declaration that lists one

The upshot

Into mediation with the deposits beside the declaration, the three wires and the transfers that followed them, and a page for every figure.

Family law analysis questions, answered

What family law attorneys ask first

Can CounselPro calculate income available for support?
Yes. Income is computed from the bank deposits, with internal transfers, refunds and loan proceeds set aside, and the capacity-to-pay workflow sets it against the household’s recurring obligations for an alimony or child support figure. Every deposit that counts keeps its page.
How do I prove dissipation of marital assets?
Filter every account to the months around the separation date and read what moved. The asset tracing section of the forensic report writes the pattern up, each transfer cited to its page, describes it as potential dissipation, and leaves the legal conclusion to you.
Does it read credit card statements and checks?
Bank, credit card and check statements from virtually any U.S. institution, scans included. A card statement also names the authorized users on the account, and a card the other side never mentioned is a finding on its own.
Will the numbers hold up in court?
Every statement cycle is balanced to its printed beginning and ending totals, and a month that comes up short is read again against the page image until it matches. A figure the records cannot support is left open and flagged for you, and every row keeps its page.

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