Closely held companies
Ownership, buy-sell terms, and personal versus enterprise goodwill.
Former government fraud investigator · 700+ investigations
Divorce, when the balance sheet is
Attorney Charles E. Liken Jr. spent years as a government fraud investigator, with more than 700 investigations behind him. Now he brings that skill to high net worth divorce in Boulder County: finding the money, proving where it went, and protecting what is yours.
The marital estate, investigated.
High net worth divorce turns on what each asset is worth, whose it is, and whether it was disclosed. A former fraud investigator reads these holdings the way he read 700+ government cases: follow the money, then prove it.
Equity and deferred pay
RSUs and stock options split by grant date and vesting schedule.
Real estate
Primary homes, mountain properties, rentals and the debt behind each.
Inheritance and gifts
Premarital assets and any increase in value during the marriage.
Trusts and agreements
Family trusts, beneficial interests, and premarital or marital agreements.
Matters.
Every matter starts the way a fraud investigation does: with the records, not the story.
Business owners
Valuation of an operating company or professional practice, protecting its operations during the case, and structuring a buyout the business can carry.
Executives and founders
Equity awards, bonuses and deferred compensation, including what is marital, what is not yet earned, and how future vesting is divided.
Hidden and moving assets
Tracing transfers, testing sworn financial statements against the records, and working with forensic accountants when the numbers do not reconcile. This is exactly what Attorney Liken did in more than 700 government fraud investigations.
Spousal maintenance
Maintenance in higher income households, where guideline figures are a starting point and the full financial picture decides the outcome.
Children and parenting
Parenting plans and child support when incomes are high, travel is frequent and schooling decisions carry real weight, informed by his work as a court-appointed Colorado Child & Family Investigator.
Premarital and marital agreements
Drafting, reviewing and enforcing agreements, and challenging ones signed without fair disclosure.
Discretion
Your divorce should not become anyone else's business.
Private consultationsBy appointment only, by phone, video or in person.
Out of the courtroomMediation and private negotiation where they serve you, with trial preparation behind every offer.
Careful filingsSensitive financial detail kept out of the public record wherever court rules allow.
Confidential expertsForensic accountants and business valuators retained under confidentiality terms.
How a matter moves.
The same preparation whether the case settles in a conference room or is decided by a judge.
Private consultation
A confidential conversation about your goals, timeline and what is at stake.
Investigating the estate
Every account, entity, property and income stream traced and documented with a fraud investigator's discipline.
Valuation and strategy
Experts engaged where the numbers require it, and a plan built around the outcome you need.
Resolution
Negotiated settlement, mediation or trial.
Guides.
Plain-language explainers on the assets that make high net worth divorce complicated, and a confidential checklist to prepare for your first conversation.
Compensation
Business
Funds
Printable
Stock options and RSUs
Property or expectancy, grant terms, and ways to divide equity awards.
Business interests
Marital or separate, valuation, and dividing value without dividing the company.
Carried interest
Waterfalls, vesting, clawback and the fund documents that matter.
Confidential checklist
Entities, trusts, retirement, equity, real estate, crypto, taxes and prenups.
Former government fraud investigator. Now your divorce lawyer.
Attorney Charles E. Liken Jr.
More than 700 government fraud investigations. Attorney Liken knows how assets get hidden, moved and disguised, because finding them was his job. In a divorce, he finds what a spouse would rather keep out of view.
In the law since 1995. As a former Colorado Deputy District Attorney, he learned how evidence is built and tested. As a court-appointed Colorado Child & Family Investigator, he has seen custody disputes from the court's side of the table.
Clients with complex estates hire him for one reason: he handles their case himself, from the first call to the final decree.
Private consultation
Begin with a confidential conversation.
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- Office telephone
- 303-406-2791
- charles@longmont.law
- Office fax number
- 720-713-7147
- Office mailing address
- The Longmont Law Firm, LLC
1601 29th St. Suite 1292
Boulder, CO 80301 - Hours
- Monday to Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM, and by appointment