25
/ June
2012
Which profession is more prone to divorce litigation?
We just did a quick search by SIC code of all the marital dissolution cases in BVLaw (over 1,240 to date) and found that—by far—there were more published court decisions concerning the valuation of doctors’ practices than any other profession. Law and dental firms ranked second and third, respectively—and, interestingly, when we limited our search to just the past three years of divorce cases, it looks like dental practice valuations are catching up:
| SIC Code | Industry/services | No. of cases reported inBVLaw | No. of cases reported in the last 3 years |
| 8011 | Offices and clinics of medical doctors | 131 | 10 |
| 8111 | Legal services | 72 | 7 |
| 8021 | Offices and clinics of dentists | 57 | 6 |
| 8721 | Accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services | 25 | 1 |
| 8711/8712 | Engineering/architectural services | 12 | 1 |
| 8041 | Offices and clinics of chiropractors | 10 | 1 |