Services
These are not separate practice areas. They are things done with an appraisal — defended in court, or argued with an insurer — and they sit on top of whichever discipline your assets fall under.
Expert Witness & Litigation Support
Retained by counsel in marital dissolution, probate, partnership disputes, eminent domain and damages matters. Over fifty engagements.
Attaches to any discipline
Insurance Support
Replacement cost, scheduled property, and contents loss after a claim — including disputes where the carrier’s number is the problem.
Attaches to personal property and real estate
Why these are listed separately
An appraisal discipline answers what is being valued — real estate, personal property, a business. A service answers what happens next. The same firearms collection might be appraised for an estate, then defended in a division dispute, then scheduled with an insurer. One discipline, two services, one appraiser who signed all of it.
Listing them as though they were alternatives to each other would suggest you pick one. You do not.
Ready for a number you can defend?
Tell us what you have and what it's for. You get a fixed written quote — never an hourly meter, never a sales call.
What the work actually looks like
Real assignments, client details removed — what each engagement actually turned on, rather than how it felt.
A house, a workshop of machine tools, a forty-year firearms collection and a stake in the family company — four disciplines that three appraisers had only partly covered. One engagement, one effective date, one set of assumptions.
A donation the regulations would have aggregated past the appraisal threshold, which the donor had assessed item by item. One qualified appraisal covering the group, itemized, signed inside the window the regulations allow.
An opposing report whose number was not obviously wrong — which is what made it dangerous. It failed on its own certification, and was answered section by section with an independent valuation to the correct definition of value.