A forensic accountant is an accounting professional with specialized expertise in analyzing financial records for litigation purposes. In Arizona family law forensic accountants are used to trace separate property, identify hidden assets, analyze business income and value, reconstruct financial histories, and calculate damage amounts for waste or fraud claims.

Forensic accountants can identify discrepancies between reported income and actual lifestyle, find accounts that were not disclosed, analyze business records to determine the true income available for support, and trace the source and character of assets through complex transaction histories.

When hidden assets are suspected or when business income is contested a forensic accountant may be the most important expert in the case.