FLPVR™ — The Neutral Valuation System for Family-Law Matters

The Problem

The first number rarely remains just a number.

Once one side adopts a property number, the other side often answers with another. The issue shifts from what the evidence supports to which position prevails.

Before Positions Harden — FLPVR™

Establish a neutral baseline for Retention · Buyout · Sale before either side has to defend a number.

When Valuation Is Already Contested — CAM™

Explain where competing analyses diverge and what actually drives the gap — without becoming another valuation opinion.

One neutral baseline before positions harden. One neutral explanation when valuation is already contested.

The System

Two instruments. Two moments. One standard of neutrality.

FLPVR™ establishes the neutral property reference before positions harden. CAM™ is the second instrument, used when a competing valuation analysis already exists and the disagreement needs to be understood.

Before Positions Harden

FLPVR^™

Educate. Explain. Calculate. Guide.

One conclusion. The reasoning behind it. The economics that follow from it.

Why It Matters — comparable evidence is not merely listed; the report explains why each meaningful sale matters to the marital property.
The Sales Someone May Raise — high-side, low-side, challenged, and competing market evidence is addressed rather than quietly omitted.
Retention · Buyout · Sale Economics — the property number is translated into the choices actually being negotiated.
Facts Stay Visible — Confirmed, Reported, and Unverified facts remain distinguishable, so counsel can see what is known, what is being represented, and what could change the conclusion.

Built to be understood by counsel, mediator, and client — not merely delivered as a number.

When Valuation Is Already Contested

CAM^™

Clarify. Isolate. Quantify. Reconcile.

A methodology-and-verification gap analysis.

Where Did the Numbers Separate? — property facts, comparable selection, adjustments, assumptions, effective-date evidence, or analytical treatment.
What Actually Drives the Gap? — CAM™ separates meaningful differences from differences that do not materially change the economic result.
What Is the Disputed Difference Really Worth? — the remaining variance is translated into economic significance, so counsel can judge whether the disagreement warrants continued litigation or can become a settlement conversation.
Starts With the FLPVR™ Baseline — CAM™ begins with a completed FLPVR™ and analyzes the external valuation against the same visible factual and market framework.

One Standard. Two Instruments.

Neutral in execution. Neutral in documentation. Transparent in reasoning.

Professional judgment governs the methodology. The methodology governs the assignment. The reasoning remains visible.

The only client is the data.

The Evidence

Judge the system the way it judges property: on the record.

Exhibit A — Mediation

A neutral property reference changed the posture of mediation.

Opposing counsel arrived with a competing property conclusion and an appraiser at the table. The FLPVR™ had already been prepared as a neutral property reference for the matter.

"It gave us a neutral, defensible foundation that opposing counsel and their appraiser could not simply wave away. They agreed to the $2 million valuation, and it changed the posture of the entire mediation." Lauren Grondski, Esq. — Family Law Attorney, South Florida

Shared with permission from an actual South Florida matter.

Exhibit B — Contested Valuation

The valuation gap became measurable.

A licensed appraisal and a completed FLPVR™ reached different property conclusions. CAM™ examined the methodology, property facts, assumptions, verification, and market evidence behind both analyses.

Appraisal

Low $300,000s

FLPVR™

Mid $300,000s

Valuation Gap

≈ $15K – $35K

Illustrative Per-Party Stake

≈ $7.5K – $17.5K

CAM™ Answers the Questions

Why are the numbers different?

How much does the difference matter?

Is the valuation fight economically worth continuing?

Drawn from an actual Florida matter; figures adjusted for confidentiality.

Exhibit C — Independent Validation

Before asking attorneys to trust the methodology, FLPVR™ invited an appraiser to challenge it.

Donald J. Sarley, ASA, IFA, SRA is a Florida State-Certified Residential Appraiser with more than 45 years of Florida real-estate and appraisal experience and more than 40 years of expert-witness experience in dissolution proceedings.

As Founding Valuation Methodology Advisor, Don's role is upstream: challenge and strengthen the valuation methodology, comparative-reconciliation framework, verification discipline, analytical standards, and valuation logic.

The methodology was built to withstand professional challenge — not avoid it.

The Invitation — Complimentary Pilot

See it on one of your own matters.

Retention · Buyout · Sale · Contested valuation

If you have an active Florida divorce matter involving a marital home, I'll prepare a complimentary FLPVR™ during the South Florida pilot.

No Fee · No Obligation · No Listing Expectation

Request Your Complimentary FLPVR™

Most reports are delivered within 48–72 business hours after all required supporting information is received.

Prefer to talk first? Talk with Lou.

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Lou Rodriguez, Founder of FLPVR — Lou Rodriguez · Founder, FLPVR™

The Professionals Behind the Methodology

"In this work, the only client is the data."

FLPVR™ was not built in a boardroom. It was built from 15 years of entering divorce matters after the property positions had already formed, and hearing the same greeting on the other end of the line:

"Who are you, and why are you calling me?"

Lou Rodriguez has spent 26 years in South Florida real estate and mortgage lending, the last 15 working inside divorce matters where a marital home was part of the outcome. He watched the same pattern repeat: once the first property number became a party's position, every number that followed was forced to react to it.

FLPVR™ is his answer — built from the field, governed by methodology, and transparent in its reasoning.

"Professional judgment governs the methodology. The methodology governs the assignment. The reasoning remains visible." — Lou Rodriguez, Founder, FLPVR™

26 years in real estate and mortgage lending · 800+ closed transactions · 15 years at the intersection of divorce and property · Florida Bar Family Law Section Affiliate Member

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A founder can build a methodology. Credibility requires letting someone qualified challenge it.

FLPVR™ did not ask the valuation profession for automatic agreement. It invited scrutiny.

Donald J. Sarley, Founding Valuation Methodology Advisor, FLPVR — Donald J. Sarley · Founding Valuation Methodology Advisor

Donald J. Sarley, ASA, IFA, SRA, is a Florida State-Certified Residential Appraiser with more than 45 years of Florida appraisal experience and more than 40 years of expert-witness experience in dissolution matters. Don's role is upstream: he challenges and strengthens FLPVR™ valuation methodology, reconciliation standards, verification discipline, and analytical logic — without directing individual assignment conclusions or signing reports.

Don challenges and strengthens the methodology. The methodology governs the assignment.

View Donald J. Sarley's CV

Independent appraisal / expert-witness inquiries: dsarley@bellsouth.net

You already have an appraiser. You already have a Realtor. But who tells you what the house means to the settlement?