Valuing a professional practice requires in-depth analysis

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Abstract: When accountants and other professionals divorce, the amount of goodwill to include in the marital estate can become contentious. If expert testimony on the issue is inadequate, a court might look elsewhere for help, as it did in one recent divorce case. This article describes the case, in which part of the problem was that the partnership agreement of the husband’s firm lacked provisions addressing the valuation of a partner’s interest.