Question to discovery and finance.

dday_throwaway3 · 2022-08-16T15:25:20+00:00

Providing bank statements for X years is standard practice. My ex wanted 7 years. I asked for 3 years from her.
Your attorney, OC and judge have been doing this collectively for decades. You aren't smarter then they are. If you leave something out intentionally (aka hide it), when it's discovered don't be surprised when your wife is awarded 100% of the asset. There's a famous case from 1998 where a woman going through a divorce in CA won the lottery, hid it from her husband, and then was forced to hand over all winnings from it.
You've got your work cut out for you. You need to discuss this issue with your attorney. That's a significant amount of money, and OC will definitely say you've been dispersing marital funds. Much depends if your wife knew about this or not.

JennFezz · 2022-08-16T20:37:22+00:00

This sounds like tedious work

You've asked plenty of questions recently about discovery. I hope you've seen my replies about objecting to discovery questions. Overly-burdensome is definitely one objection. Five years seems like a long time.

Also, take this for what it's worth, but here's a dirty lawyer trick I learned: When you answer discovery, do it with physical paper print-outs. When I answered discovery, I was trying to be polite and professional and gave them PDFs, which can be easily searched.

But when I asked for reciprocating documents, I was given paper. Not only bank statements, but also the front page (which contains marketing material from the bank) and the last page (which contains legalese) and every other page that comes with a statement. Hell, they even sent copies of the envelope it came in. This meant that my ex turned-over THOUSANDS of sheets of paper to my lawyer. My lawyer, of course, at $400/hour, needed to review EACH and EVERY sheet of paper. It's a dirty lawyer trick to drive up your opponent's legal fees.

I learned that the hard way.

So, yeah, maybe give her TEN YEARS of statements, and be sure to print out EVERY DAMN PAGE and deliver only paper answers, nothing electronic.

pk2at · 2022-08-16T15:30:10+00:00

Ignore some of the comments here who will have you believe divorce courts are better than IRS at fraud detection and figuring out your hidden motives for transfers. They are NOT, most times they will take info that is provided and split 50:50 to wrap things up. Give bare minimum info on what is easily available, forgetting to provide something is NOT perjury. Your transfer to parents seems valid but just have proof they paid for school (ignore the investment part)

gtivr4 · 2022-08-17T04:13:16+00:00

Was the money to your parents before or after you started to divorce. If it was your wife doing the same thing what would you do and would you know?

upvotersfortruth · 2022-08-17T04:51:49+00:00

2) Also, what will happen if I omit one of my investment accounts? do they have ways to find out?

Fuck around and find out, as they say. Alternatively, comply or object.

Title	Question to discovery and finance.
Author	O-nie
Upvotes	5
Comments	16
Date	August 16, 2022 3:18 PM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/Divorce_Men
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