As Bitcoin surges in value once again, divorcing spouses may be tempted to convert cash into electronic currency. Finding it can be harder than finding cash, but if you do find it, you can make a comparatively fast case that your spouse is undercounting assets.

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Clients who hire us for asset searches always want to know what we find. As often as not, the big news after an asset search is when we don’t find something we should be seeing but are not.

When someone is concealing the truth, they often put in place a lie to throw you off.

PROBLEM:

To make it seem like he has very little money, the debtor has been writing checks and giving cash to his friends, family and other people/businesses with the intention of recovering this money after you get divorced.

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SOLUTIONS:

If you have access to your debtor’s bank records, they will be