If your spouse is or you feel he or she is contemplating
hiding marital assets, you will be one up on them by having this information.
We have outstanding asset investigation resources (both domestically and offshore) that can be utilized to locate
hidden marital assets.
Wife, a former successful international banking and finance lawyer at a major law firm, claimed that during the marriage, husband, also a successful lawyer,
hid marital assets worth millions of dollars.
Not exact matches
There is no way to
hide personal
assets except that in many states there is a homestead exemption and / or an exemption for all
marital property.»
These techniques can include
hiding assets to minimise the allocation of
marital assets upon divorce.
If you are financially disadvantaged and do not have funds to engage in litigation or even retain counsel to handle your matter or to uncover
hidden assets and obtain information concerning the
marital assets, you will be severely disadvantaged.
Where necessary, he also utilizes the appropriate experts to ascertain proper business valuation and the valuation of other
assets, to discover
hidden assets and to otherwise uphold the equitable distribution of all
marital property.
After we have found
hidden assets, we will value them and determine whether they are separate or
marital property.
The parties conspired in a despicable scheme to
hide assets during
marital dissolution and child support proceedings.
Seeking an accurate account of all
assets may also reveal
hidden assetsthat were not reported or transferred prior to divorce in order for a spouse to avoid dividing the true
marital estate.
We go the distance in valuing
marital property, and have professional resources to call upon to assist us when it appears that some
assets have been
hidden, or when one party has spent some portion of the
marital property in an unethical manner, reducing the value.
Our firm often enlists the aid of property appraisers, certified public accountants, business valuation specialists, forensic accountants and other experts as needed to evaluate
marital assets and uncover
hidden assets.
Or, the court can issue a restraining order when one party is purposefully
hiding or depleting
marital assets.
Spouses need to be cautious that they are not overlooking
hidden assets in divorce proceedings where
marital or community property will be divided.
There are many legal definitions of what constitutes dissipation, but they all involve minimizing
marital assets by
hiding, depleting, or diverting them.
If a case is highly contested, and / or one spouse has a history, for example, of
hiding or dissipating
marital assets, subpoenas of bank accounts and other financial statements can be obtained to help the court determine an award of equitable distribution when one spouse refuses to provide documentation evidencing same, or if the court or your divorce lawyers in Brooklyn have reason to believe that your spouse is not being entirely truthful in his or her disclosure of these
assets.
When deciding what each spouse is entitled to, the court will consider each spouse's age, length of the marriage, value of each spouse's
assets, each spouse's role in the marriage (wage earner vs. homemaker), and whether either spouse attempted to destroy,
hide or improperly sell any
marital asset in contemplation of the divorce.
Sometime called a forensic accountant or
asset searcher or a certified licensed investigator (CLI), a forensic accountant analyzes
marital estates for evidence of dissipation of
assets or
hiding of
assets.
There is a major drawback to having a separation agreement; if you have a devious spouse then he can
hide and dissipate the
marital assets during the separation period.
Thereafter, once the parties scrape up some money to pay up the mediator's bill, then the legal issues may have changed, and the richer spouse has had more time to
hide or dissipate the
marital assets.
For example, a forensic accountant examines UCC filings for evidence of collusion with a business partner in
hiding or misrepresenting
marital assets.
Do you believe he / she would not try to
hide or misrepresent
assets in order to prevent you from getting your fair share of
marital property or your children from getting the support to which they're entitled?
How common is financial misbehavior during high - net - worth divorce cases, from
hiding money on offshore accounts, to stealing
marital assets to cover gambling debts?