Shaky market approach prevails over improper cost approach

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 11 No. 4
Legal and Court Case Update
April 2005
3499 Fabricated Metal Products, NEC
332999 All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
marital dissolution/divorce

In re the Marriage of Helzer
2004 Mont. LEXIS 619
December 14, 2004
US
State Court
Montana
Supreme Court
James D. Moore, Paula M. Johnson-Gilchrist
Regnier

Summary

In this marital dissolution, the issue was the value of Northwest Precision Inc., a machine manufacturing company owned by husband.

See Also

In re the Marriage of Helzer

In this marital dissolution, even though wife's expert's valuation was based on a market approach without too many good comparables, the court was entitled to rely on this approach where husband's expert presented a cost approach that was unrealistic.