Divorce Tracing for Community and Separate Property

Edmond Martin, CFE, TCI, a licensed Texas Private Investigator (PI) and Forensic Accountant and Jason Slick, PI, CFE, mathematician and computer scientist, have associated to build a financial investigative technology that aids clients in divorce tracing, income tax, estate, and other complex financial matters. Through Sage Investigations, LLC this investigative model has a national reach.

For PIs the normal business model requires the PI to spend days in their vehicles, recording notes of observation, taking still photos and video of a subject cheating on his / her spouse or observing the custodian of a child in a child custody matter and reporting the activities to an attorney for the client. The new model of Forensic Accounting (FA Model) goes beyond the PI model with the creation of DIO, short for Diogenes (The Greek philosopher, who with his lantern in Athens, Greece searched for an honest man). DIO is a financial investigative database program that analyzes big data, consisting of bank account and brokerage account transactions, credit cards, points of sale registers, and other financial data. DIO with the use of algorithms examines and reports on separate vs. community property by tracing funds within and between accounts to arrive at the proper balances in the financial assets of the client. It can be valuable to the plaintiff or the defendant. DIO goes beyond the standard accounting software and is even more robust than the system used by the IRS today. DIO traces financial transactions between bank and brokerage accounts and categorizes each transaction. When funds are transferred between accounts they maintain their proper categorization attributable to the separate and community property rules. It also traces other assets purchased from the bank or brokerage accounts for use in the final summary for the settlement computation.