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

Katie Pandolfini | Blank Rome

Katie Pandolfini is an associate in Blank Rome’s Matrimonial & Family Law group in Los Angeles, advising clients on all aspects of California family law with a focus on complex divorce proceedings and high-stakes financial matters. Her counsel spans asset and income tracing, business valuation, compensation structures, and lifestyle-related issues for high-net-worth individuals, and she also assists with custody and access rights as well as prenuptial, postnuptial, and cohabitation agreements. Her unique background in law and finance enables her to deliver strategic, detail-oriented solutions that protect clients’ interests during some of life’s most challenging transitions.

• Education & Credentials

Katie earned her J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and her B.A. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is admitted to practice in New Jersey, California, and New York. She is also a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® and has completed training in divorce and family law mediation and collaborative law.

• Recognition & Leadership

Katie was named to Best Lawyers in America© “Ones to Watch” in Family Law in 2026. She was listed as a Southern California “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers from 2022 through 2026, and as a New York Metro “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers from 2017 through 2021.

• Professional Involvement

Katie is a member of the American Bar Association and an active member of its Family Law Division, and she serves as vice chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Family Law section. During law school, she was an editor for the Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender. She also speaks on digital assets and cryptocurrency in family law matters, including continuing legal education programs on identifying, tracing, and valuing crypto in divorce.

• Experience

Katie’s Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® credential allows her to identify hidden risks and opportunities in asset division, compensation packages, and business valuations, and she reverse-engineers financial scenarios so clients can prioritize issues before they escalate. Rather than piecemeal fixes, she helps clients create clear, enforceable agreements and settlement strategies that withstand scrutiny, and is known for turning complex financial and custody issues into actionable plans. Her issue-triage approach identifies the 10 percent of issues that create 90 percent of the conflict, giving clients a roadmap across financial exposure, custody and parenting concerns, lifestyle and support obligations, and litigation risk.

Victoria Fife | CBIZ Forensic Consulting Group

Victoria Fife is a forensic accountant and digital assets subject matter expert at CBIZ in the Forensic Consulting Group, specializing in the complex tracing, valuation, and division of assets in high-net-worth divorce and civil litigation matters. She is among the first and few court-qualified U.S. forensic expert witnesses providing full-scope crypto asset services and testimony in litigation. She regularly consults on cases involving digital assets — including asset tracing and valuation analyses for disposition and division, legal disclosure, breach of fiduciary duty claims, damages calculations, and cryptocurrency scam investigations — and is known for developing practical methodologies and a fair, logical approach to the treatment of digital assets in litigation.

• Education & Credentials

Victoria earned her bachelor’s degree in accounting and business management from Capella University, graduating with honors and as a member of the Delta Mu Delta Honor Society. She holds the Certified Cryptocurrency Forensic Investigator (CCFI), Chainalysis Reactor Certification (CRC), Certified Ethereum Professional (CEP), and Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) credentials.

• Recognition & Leadership

Victoria was named an honoree on the 2024 Women in FinTech Powerlist in the Financial and Professional Services category, and was recognized on the CBIZ Women’s Advantage 2025 Women to Watch list.

• Professional Involvement

Victoria is a recurring speaker for professional associations including the American Bar Association and the AICPA, and a guest on industry podcasts and webinars. She is the founder of Forensics on the Block, a professional network focused on training, education, and the evolving impact of digital assets on forensic accounting and litigation, and serves as a Regional Ambassador for the Association of Women in Cryptocurrency. She is a member of the AICPA, the ACFE, CalCPA, and ACAMS.

• Experience

With over a decade of hands-on experience in blockchain-based assets and technologies, Victoria has contributed to hundreds of cases since 2016. She joined CBIZ in 2022 and has been a catalyst in the expansion of the firm’s digital assets initiative. Prior to CBIZ, she worked in the Forensic Accounting division at Gursey | Schneider LLP, where she developed her focus on complex tracing analyses and large-scale data projects.

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

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 | 1:20pm – 1:40pm

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 | 1:40pm – 2:00pm

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 | 2:00pm – 2:10pm

SESSION 4 – Division, Remedies and Enforcement | 2:10pm – 2:25pm

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 | 2:25pm – 2:40pm

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.