Cryptocurrency in Divorce: How to Identify, Trace, and Value Digital Assets in Marital Estates

Katie Pandolfini | Blank Rome

Katie concentrates her practice on matrimonial and family law. With a unique background in law and finance, Katie provides strategic representation to family law clients with a specialty working with high-net-worth individuals, particularly those with complicated fact patterns involving forensic assets and income tracing, business valuation, complex compensation, and high-end lifestyle issues.

Katie is a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®. She has also completed training in divorce and family law mediation and collaborative law. During law school, Katie focused her concentration on family law and was an editor for the Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender.

Victoria Fife | CBIZ Forensic Consulting Group

Victoria Fife is a forensic accountant and testifying digital assets expert at CBIZ, specializing in complex tracing, valuation, and division of assets in high-net-worth divorce and civil litigation matters. With over a decade of hands-on blockchain experience, she is among the first U.S. court-qualified forensic experts providing full-scope cryptocurrency asset services and testimony in litigation. Recognized on the 2024 Women in FinTech Powerlist and CBIZ Women’s Advantage 2025 Women to Watch list, she is a frequent speaker for professional associations such as the American Bar Association and the AICPA, and co-host on industry-related podcasts.

SESSION 1 – Finding and Tracing Assets | 2:00pm – 2:20pm

Learn to spot the signals of undisclosed crypto holdings and follow funds across multiple blockchains, wallets, and exchanges—building the evidentiary trail that connects on-chain activity to a spouse who claims to own nothing.

SESSION 2 – Smart, Defensible Discovery and Disclosure | 2:20pm – 2:40pm

Draft discovery requests that actually reach digital assets, compel exchange records and wallet data, and secure usable documentation fast—before positions move or accounts close—structuring disclosure demands that withstand objection and produce admissible proof.

SESSION 3 – Valuation Choices That Hold Up | 2:40pm – 3:00pm

Resolve the questions that decide value: which valuation date controls, which pricing sources a court will trust, and how to handle volatile positions—so your number survives cross-examination and the opposing expert’s challenge.

BREAK | 3:00pm – 3:10pm

SESSION 4 – Division, Remedies and Enforcement | 3:10pm – 3:25pm

Litigate or negotiate the division of volatile digital assets, then actually collect—learn the remedies and mechanics for moving, transferring, or accounting for crypto when it’s time to enforce a judgment or settlement.

SESSION 5 – Concealment, Fraud and Regulatory Friction | 3:25pm – 3:40pm

Recognize the concealment tactics and crypto scams now surfacing in family-law matters, and work through the regulatory friction that complicates tracing, recovery, and enforcement when a spouse hides assets behind pseudonymous transactions.