Mark J A Hughes

is an Arizona Certified Public Accountant with a practice focusing on valuation and forensic accounting issues. He is a partner at Gorman Consulting Group, LLC where he leads the business valuation practice. He assists legal counsel in areas of financial dispute in areas ranging from marital dissolution to commercial litigation. His expertise includes performing valuations of privately held businesses for a variety of purposes including marital dissolutions, business acquisition or sales and dispute resolution. He frequently performs forensic accounting, asset tracing and community lien analyses in a family law context. He is Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He has written and spoke on the topics of personal goodwill, community lien analysis and post-service distribution analysis. He has performed over 75 family law engagements in the COVID-19 era and has provided testimony at trial on 10 occasions since March of 2020.