Divorce Valuation Court Appraiser

Hey,

I have to submit a client's financial information to a court appointed appraiser for valuation pursuant to a divorce.

In the client's favor:

The client owns small sales partnerships that have a high initial opening revenue and then small recurring revenue, but he tends to open new organizations every year based on a different product. These are also key man operations where the owner who's doing the selling is creating virtually all of the value.

The appraiser's document request, requests a laundry list of documents including budgets and projections etc.

Does anyone have any advice on what sorts of documents on projections, budgets, etc that I can provide to the appraiser with the goal of reducing the valuation?

You're going to want the reasonable compensation factor as high as possible. That may increase his alimony, but will decrease the Biz value and, thus, the property settlement. They're unlikely to wash.