Randy Kessler

I felt like I was helping people and I found my passion early on.

I'm lucky.

The biggest fight, the biggest dispute in a divorce or marital situation is not about how to get a bigger percentage, but it's what are we fighting about?

What is the marital pot?

People try to hide assets all the time.

They make it hard to find them because if you can't find them, you can't divide them.

You file a case in a family court, you automatically are required to then turn around and produce your last three years of tax returns, your bank statements.

Because if a judge has to divide things, what are they going to rely on?

Your word?

They're not going to rely on your word.

They're going to say, I want to see what you told the government you earned.

Yes, and it goes both ways.

Sometimes people know all the financials about their whole family.

Some people have been kept in the dark, and we represent the typical wife whose husband is rich and says, here, just sign this tax return.

And once a year, they glimpse at it before he yanks it out of her hand and doesn't know what she signed.

But that's when it comes up, is when the spouses start to exchange information

I would trust a woman's intuition more than I trust a private investigator.

If my client says, I think he's got more money than he's letting on, that makes me look a little harder, dig a little deeper.

And then the ultimate fail safe

is in big cases, big dollar cases, we almost always hire forensic accountants.