Litigation Support & Expert Witness Services
The need for real estate appraisals has become increasingly common in litigation proceedings. Considering today’s legal climate, to win settlements or court decisions involves a need for highly skilled professionals. Lamb Hanson Lamb’s staff has tremendous experienced in litigation support and expert witness services. Clients who have used our expert testimony services include government agencies, tax entities, financial institutions, legal and accounting firms and many other businesses.
In many cases, our independent, supportable analysis has allowed clients to settle cases without going to court. Some examples of issues we have experience with include:
- Valuation for divorce, partnership, taxation issues etc.
- Valuation of stigmatized property
- Valuation as of a date in the past, retrospective
- Valuation for condemnation and eminent domain cases
- Effect on value of properties with history of flood
- Estate settlement
- Effect on value caused by insect infestation
- Construction defect, or physical obsolescence
- Developer defect class-actions
An appraiser must remain unbiased in performing an appraisal of a property. But we can consult with you and advise you about the relative strength of an appraisal presented by opposing parties. We can also perform additional research and analysis to support or discredit assumptions or conclusions.