Maintaining Status Quo while divorce is pending
Just because you are getting divorced doesn’t mean that your responsibilities to one another are over. You both have an obligation to protect your marital assets. You can’t go on a spending spree or start hiding marital assets. It won’t work. There’s always a paper trail, and I have yet to meet a client who was smarter at hiding assets than any half-decent private investigator (or intrepid spouse) couldn’t find using the internet and some good old-fashioned detective work. Transfers to family members are automatically suspicious. Don’t bother. Be honest. You’ll get through the whole process much more easily. You cannot cancel your spouse’s insurance, stop paying ‘their share’ of the bills when you’ve always been the primary breadwinner, and otherwise change the way things had been prior to the filing for divorce. A good rule of thumb is if it seems wrong it probably is wrong. If you wouldn’t want it done to you, don’t do it to your spouse. This is not a time for one-upmanship or spite.
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