Thomas Martin was recently interviewed for an article in Law.com. The former federal agent said attorneys are his most frequent clients. “You either find the assets or you don’t. You either get the guy off for murder or you don’t. You either locate the person and do a background, or you don’t. There’s no gray area in our work.”
Shortly after attorneys are retained and spouses are served, most people quickly surmise they are swimming in the quicksand of the family law court system. Many feel violated and abused, like victims of an unfair and uncaring court system.
Incompetent attorneys, outrageous fees, callous and going-through-the-motions judges, knucklehead forensic accounts, amateurish 730 evaluators and incompetent private investigators often seem to dominate the process.
Among the hundreds of criminal attorneys practicing law in Orange County, I wouldn’t hire most of them to fix a parking ticket.
I would know, since I’ve worked with many of them (on both sides of the aisle) over the last 50 years as both a federal agent and a private investigator in Orange County.
There are actually only five that I would recommend, and if you don’t have one of them, I’d say you have little to no chance of success.
It’s hard to choose a family law attorney out of thousands in Orange County. I’m in the unique position of having personally worked with many (if not most) local Orange County lawyers – on both sides. And I’m happy to provide referrals.
Financial ignorance is when a partner knows nothing about the financial affairs of their own home. During a divorce, it can cost women everything.
The Louisville Gas & Electric Company (LG&E) could be in hot water. Environmental activists associated with the Sierra Club have brought charges against LG&E for allegedly dumping excessive amounts of toxic coal-ash into the Ohio River. Members of the Sierra Club performed hidden surveillance of the activities by mounting a time-lapse camera to a tree…
This post discusses details about the most useful tool in any skilled private investigator’s arsenal: The art of interview and interrogation. This seems to be a topic of great interest to people, mostly because of the portrayal of interrogation on television, from the multiple incarnations of Law & Order to Jack Bauer threatening to shove…
There’s a lot of advice out there about what you should do when you’re preparing for divorce. This post talks about what NOT to do when getting a divorce.
In the case of a celebrity divorce, when two famous and powerful people in Hollywood go to war in court, each side has the money to hire multiple attorneys, private investigators, forensic accountants, and other experts. A few years ago, Martin Investigative Services was retained by a celebrity in this situation. When our client disregarded…
An asset search often means the difference between getting awarded and getting nothing. When a 1 million dollar judgement was awarded to our client in court, the defendant turned to the other side and said “pigs will fly before you actually collect any money from me”. Our private investigators performed an asset search and discovered…
