Over 100 Hours Saved: How BeachFleischman Accelerated Family Law Litigation

The Mission

BeachFleischman is a full-service CPA firm featuring a specialized Financial Forensics and Valuation Services Department. Principal Ashley Byma focuses on family law accounting, helping attorneys and clients untangle complex financial histories to ensure equitable distribution of marital assets.

The Challenge: Facing a Manual Nightmare

In a high-conflict divorce engagement, the legal team required granular tracking of specific payroll deposits, debt payments, and inter-family transfers to determine the wife’s entitlement to the husband’s post-filing income.

• Extreme Data Volume: The team was tasked with analyzing 10 different bank accounts containing over 10,000 individual transactions.
• A 6-Year Financial Maze: The investigation required a deep dive into a 5–6 year period, making manual reconstruction nearly impossible within the litigation window.
• Targeted Tracing Requirements: The attorney required precise extraction of specific payroll deposits, inter-family transfers, and debt expenditures buried within thousands of pages of statements.
• Fragmented Debt Records: The firm had to manually quantify and track payments against 20 different loans and credit cards, a task that was described as “overly burdensome.”
• Immediate Trial Pressure: The team was operating under a critical “couple of weeks” deadline before trial, requiring a fully reconciled financial dataset with zero margin for error.

Solution: Valid8 as a Force Multiplier Tool

As with many of her cases, Byma leveraged Valid8 to transform this project from a tedious manual exercise to an automated forensic reconstruction.

The Wrap Up: Scaling Investigative Capacity

This engagement demonstrated that Valid8 is more than just a data tool, it is a settlement catalyst. By transforming 10,000 chaotic transactions into a reconciled dataset in 48 hours, BeachFleischman provided the essential payroll and debt quantifications that ultimately helped both parties reach a settlement.