Utilizing Financial Experts in a Divorce Action

Ms. Chamoun Taranto is a passionate and strategic family law attorney who brings both deep legal acumen and genuine emotional intelligence to her practice. She represents clients across a broad spectrum of matrimonial issues including divorce, child custody and support, spousal support, and property distribution. Ms. Chamoun Taranto has experience negotiating prenuptial and postnuptial agreements and settlement agreements. In addition, she is a fearless advocate in matters involving domestic violence, orders of protection, and international child abduction, among other matters. Ms. Chamoun Taranto has litigated cases throughout New York City in Supreme and Family Court, including Staten Island. She is the current director and Diversity Committee Chair of the Richmond County Bar Association and former vice president of the Staten Island Women’s Bar Association.

Mr. Gottlieb is the Director of Forensic and Litigation Support Services at MSG, where he oversees forensic accounting investigations, business valuations, and economic damages analyses in complex commercial and matrimonial disputes. Mr. Gottlieb brings an unusual combination of credentials to this work: he is both a licensed attorney and a certified public accountant, which gives him a fluency in both the financial analysis and the litigation process that most forensic consultants simply do not have. Mr. Gottlieb's work covers the full scope of the firm’s litigation support practice. He conducts and supervises business valuations of closely held companies, prepares economic damages calculations in commercial disputes, and leads forensic investigations involving allegations of fraud, asset dissipation, and financial misreporting. Mr. Gottlieb also plays a central role in expert report preparation, deposition and trial support, and the development of rebuttal analyses targeting opposing experts’ methodologies and conclusions. He has provided expert testimony and lectures regularly on financial and tax matters in divorce litigation, presenting to organizations including the American Bar Association, BARBRI, the Suffolk County Bar Association, and Strafford Webinars.