Financial infidelity refers to the act of withholding important financial information, such as debts, expenses, income, or assets, from one's partner in an attempt to deceive or control the couple's financial situation. This can include secret bank accounts, hidden investments or holdings of cryptocurrencies. This phenomenon can have serious consequences particularly during divorce.
New York is an equitable distribution state, meaning that a spouse gets 50% of the marital assets accumulated during the marriage.
Spouse 1 worked during the marriage and earned $100k. Spouse 2 lived off Spouse 2 (doing nothing) the entire time and earned $0. After the divorce, the "common" income of $100k is divided between the two: Spouse 1 loses -$50k, Spouse 2 gets "out of thin air" +$50k. Tell me, is this fair?

If hidden accounts are discovered, this can, depending on the country, have various legal consequences such as a tax audit but also prosecution for fraud, etc...
Fraud? For hiding
YOUR hard-earned money from an unreliable spouse (and it is an unreliable spouse if he demands a divorce and half of the savings)? Questions arise about the legal systems of such countries.
I think that in France, there aren't many cases in which one spouse seeks out the other's coins, and therefore no real specialist, like the one in this CNBC article.
If one has to “
protect” oneself from civil law legislation (this is what marriages between citizens belong to) with the help of marriage contracts, then here too questions arise about the fairness and benefits of marriage unions for both participants of this union at the level of laws.
In the case, DiMichael said, the husband had a Ledger and then the wife found the device in the house and took it. “So the wife had the Ledger, but she didn’t know the pin number, or password. And the husband — he knew the pin number, but he didn’t have the Ledger.”
Neither could access the funds without the cooperation of the other.
This is the
ideal family, when spouse 1 depends on spouse 2.
