A Conversation with Victoria Kirilloff
Today I am meeting with Victoria Kirilloff, a family financial mediator and certified divorce financial analyst practicing primarily in California; but, with Zoom she works with clients all ove the United States. I limit my practice to family law in California, because I am only licensed in California.
My mediation, litigation and prenuptial agreement drafting practice involve participants and clients who are often small to medium sized business owners, or have certain investment assets and debts that involve issues beyond just their divorce. Because these issues are broader than just their divorce, they require that I bring into the mediation room (or as consulting attorneys or co-mediators) additional professionals. With close to 8 years of experience in financial consulting and divorce management as well as personal experience dealing with high- conflict divorces, Victoria is a great resource to bring into either setting.
Here are ten ways that she has assisted in these types of divorce matters and can assist both in the mediation and litigation setting going forward:
1. Because of her financial background, Victoria can work with clients to create global settlement proposals addressing issues of child and spousal support and property division.
2. Victoria can work with clients to address the California Family Code section 4320 factors, which details how to calculate long term spousal support.
3. She can also work with the clients to determine marital standard of living in middle class to high net worth divorce cases by creating marital standard of living and income available for support reports.
4. Victoria optimizes financial settlements by working with the parties to determine their long term financial goals, which sets her apart from forensic accountants who cannot give this advice. As a certified divorce financial analyst, this license and about 12 others enable her to offer this advice. This is especially helpful in long term marriages where one spouse has been out of the workforce for quite some time and needs financial advice currently and for future planning.
5. Victoria is proficient in AI programs that confidentially review and organize data in record time at a fraction of the cost of a typical forensic accounting process.
6. She ensures that the non-financially savvy spouse is fully informed and understands his or her new financial reality.
7. Victoria can analyze a proposed financial settlement in a divorce case and make certain the parties are not structuring an agreement that will make them house-rich and cash poor.
8. She can Concurrently strategize with a family law attorney prior to making any transfers of valuable assets.
9. She advises on how to pay professionals involved in the dissolution of marriage action.
10. Victoria uses her personal and professional experience to co-mediate cases with attorneys where she can provide the financial knowledge, analysis and transparency whereas the attorney mediator can only provide the law and its application in settlement and in Court.
Victoria would like to stress that in addition to what is set forth above, she feels that spousal support and the family residence are the two most prominent issues in a divorce, next to child custody, and she focuses her practice on these two issues primarily in the mediation and litigation setting as well as in her work as a divorce analyst. The best referrals for her in this context are: cases where there is a large imbalance in financial information between the spouses or high net worth divorce cases. Victoria views all divorces as “the biggest financial transaction of your life.”
As stated above, Victoria is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®), Nationally Certified Professional in Mediation (NCPM®), Certified Divorce Specialist (CDS®), and Holistic Wealth Engineer. She brings unmatched expertise and perspective backed by her personal background in managing her family business, using the power of financial analysis during her own uncoupling, and her work experience at Mutual of Omaha as an insurance professional and at Morgan Stanley as a financial advisor. In her spare time, Victoria rides horses both English and Western and practices all forms of yoga.
Ashley Andrews has practiced exclusively family law for close to 20 years. Her firm is set apart because she handles high-conflict and complex child custody matters, divorce cases with business owners, high-asset divorce cases, and domestic violence cases. She has an in-house forensic accountant who works on all her cases in some capacity. She has litigated family law cases all over California, including multi-week trials in the following counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange County, and Riverside. While still taking the litigated family law cases, she is optimizing her practice by adding in mediation and collaborative divorce, a shift that she finds harder for the family law practitioner but better overall for the participants and their families. In her spare time, she is learning tennis, growing orchids, walking her Yorkshire terrier, frequenting the Norton Simon, and attending every Mosten Guthrie class she can fit into her schedule.
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