Pre-Legal Financial Advisory · Divorce Data Construction
For women whose finances are genuinely complex — equity compensation, ownership interests, multiple entities, trusts, assets held somewhere they cannot see. Establishing what is actually there is accounting work, it belongs before counsel is retained, and it decides more of the outcome than most people are told.
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01 The gap nobody fills
A family law attorney argues the case you bring them.
They are excellent at law. They are not financial strategists, they do not reconstruct a decade of records at $500 an hour, and they will proceed with whatever picture you walk in holding. If that picture is incomplete, the case is built on it anyway.
So the questions that decide the outcome get answered early or they get answered badly: what actually exists, what this household truly costs, and what the income really is. Where a spouse controls a business, reported income and actual distributions are frequently not the same figure — and settlements are negotiated as though they are.
Those are accounting questions. Answered early, they are ordinary work. Answered late — under deadline, with someone else holding the records — they become expensive, and sometimes impossible.
You do not need to have made a decision to begin. You need a clear picture, held privately, for as long as you want to hold it.
02 How this works
The complete engagement. Your entire financial position built from source records before you retain counsel or answer a single discovery request — accounts and entities traced, compensation reconstructed, business income examined, household cost established. Fee quoted after a confidential scoping conversation. See the engagements →
One hour with a licensed CPA reading your actual numbers back to you in plain language, at a published fee. For situations that need understanding rather than construction. About the session →
What the Connecticut financial affidavit actually asks for, answers to the questions people arrive with, and a preparation guide. Written to be useful whether or not you ever contact me. Free resources →
03 Representative Engagement
Anonymized · Client identities withheld for confidentiality
The clients stay private. The work can speak plainly.
Restructuring a $12M Marital Estate
Untangling a web of joint business entities, cross-collateralized real estate, and hidden liabilities during a high-conflict divorce — delivering total financial clarity for legal counsel.
04 The person doing the work
Cathryn Salony, CPA — Greenwich, Connecticut.
Fifteen years in tax, restructuring and complex multi-entity accounting: businesses with several entities, ownership that changed without the books noticing, years of records that never reconciled. That is the same skill a marital estate requires, applied earlier and for a different purpose.
The practice is now devoted to pre-legal financial advisory — building the complete picture for women facing divorce, before counsel is retained and before anything is contested. A small number of clients at a time, because the work does not compress well.
I am a licensed CPA with fifteen years in tax, restructuring and complex multi-entity work. I am not a forensic accountant, a certified fraud examiner, or a credentialed business valuator, and I will not present myself as one. If your matter requires courtroom testimony from a credentialed expert, I will say so plainly and help your counsel find the right person.
I am not an attorney, and nothing here is legal advice. You will need a family law attorney. This work makes theirs sharper and considerably cheaper — a client who arrives with organized records and a clear financial position spends far less in billable hours, and asks for more, because she knows what there is to ask for.
05 A private starting point
What to gather — and what to quietly watch for — before a high-asset divorce.
Delivered by email with a neutral subject line. Open it on a device only you control.
06 Also available
Tax and accounting advisory, complex multi-entity books and restructuring, and past-due tax filings — ordinary CPA work, for clients who need it. Frequently the same clients, once things have settled.
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