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January 27, 2026

The trial court adopted Vance’s value which included Enterprise Goodwill at $367,000 with the analysis from Vance and Husband’s testimony that the trail income from his financial advisory business could be assigned for value, and therefore constituted a divisible marital asset.

October 16, 2025

Robert Vance is set to present in two sessions at the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants 2025 Forensic & Valuation Services Conference October 21-23, 2025 in Brentwood, TN. Session One is entitled What’s Mine Is Mine Because I Intended It To Be That Way! Separate Property Issues in Divorce. In Session Two, Vance is a panelist in a session entitled Ask the Experts-Panel.

June 5, 2025

Trial court found the “Vance report” and testimony to be credible and adopted my finding that showed Husband had kept his bank accounts separate, including one he maintained to manage funds from rental properties Wife claimed were marital due to transmutation.

May 1, 2024

Understanding True Income for Support from Tax Documents Including Paystubs, W-2s, K-1s etc.

December 6, 2023

Robert will present the seminar covering four main topics: 1) Business Valuation-What Family Law Attorneys Need to Know, 2) Business Valuation and Case Law-Where Are We on Personal Goodwill?, 3) Interpreting and Understanding Income from W-2s, K-1s and Form 1040, and 4) Complex Forensic Accounting concepts learned from cases in which experts from my firm testified-Byrd, Schwager, Tarver and Lucchesi.

November 13, 2023

The Tennessee Society of CPAs (TSCPA) thanked two of our presenters that have been with the TSCPA FVS Conference for over a decade. The conference committee presented Harold G. Martin, Jr., CPA/ABV/CFF, ASA, CFE (2nd from left) and Kevin Yeanoplos, CPA/ABV, ASA (center) with a token of appreciation for all of their years of travel and presentation that have helped to make it one of the premiere conferences of its type in the country. Presenting were Rhonda Sides, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA, CGMA (left), Rob Vance, CPA/ABV/CFF, CVA, CFP (2nd from right) and Kara Fitzgerald, CPA, CGMA, CAE (right).

January 19, 2023

TN Divorce Case Regarding Which Expert Can Testify Either Vance or Pascal, Impartiality of the Expert Under Rule 706, Consequences of Not Cooperating and Proper Business Valuation Methods

August 1, 2022

Click Here to see Rob Vance and Rhonda Sides in a Promo video for the 2022 Conference

Robert Vance is set to present in two sessions at the Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants 2022 Forensic & Valuation Services Conference on October 26, 2022 in Brentwood, TN. Session One, Stranger Things, Unusual Things Encountered in Valuations for Divorce Cases, is co-presented with Shannon Farr, CPA, ABV, CFF of Scenic City Consulting in Chattanooga, TN. In Session Two, Vance is a panelist in a Cross Examination Panel written and moderated by Harold Martin, CPA, ABV, CFF, ASA, CFE.

February 25, 2022

The sole issue on appeal in this divorce case pertained to the coverture percentage employed by the trial court to fund the husband’s marital interest in the wife’s retirement account via a deferred distribution method.