Court Validates Expert’s Method for Separating Out Owner’s Personal Goodwill

BVLaw
Court Case Digests
October 4, 2017
4953 Refuse Systems
562211 Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal
marital dissolution/divorce
goodwill, enterprise goodwill, expert testimony, intangible assets, personal goodwill, net asset value approach (NAV), equitable distribution, separate property, identifiable intangibles, marital property

Muszynski v. Muszynski
Case No. 2013-DR-18828-O, Final Judgment of Dissolution of Marriage, Circuit Court of the Ninth Circuit, Orange County, Fla. (Oct. 4, 2017), Bob Leblanc (Circuit Judge), aff’d per curiam Muszynski v. Muszynski, 2019 Fla. App. LEXIS 9913 (June 25, 2019)
US
State Court
Florida
Circuit Court
Robert B. Morrison (wife); Adam Magill (husband)
Bob LeBlanc

Summary

Trial court adopts valuations of wife’s expert for husband’s 50% interest in waste industry company, finding expert used methods that properly separated out husband’s personal goodwill; court also accepts inclusion of identifiable intangibles shown to belong to company; appeals court affirms.

See Also

Muszynski v. Muszynski

Trial court adopts valuations of wife’s expert for husband’s 50% interest in waste industry company, finding expert used methods that properly separated out husband’s personal goodwill; court also accepts inclusion of identifiable intangibles shown to belong to company; appeals court affirms.