Mark Kohler advises a spouse without financial access to hire a forensic accountant before divorce. They'll analyze the other spouse's income, business value, and spending over 12-24 months. Don't take a new job before filing, or it will reduce your support claim.
Let's say this non money spouse comes in and says, I know my husband or whoever, my wife is cheating on me, whatever, the divorce is looming, what should I do?
I would say gather as much documentation as you can because a lot of times the non moneyed spouse has no idea where anything is or how to even access it. I don't know where the assets are, I don't know how much money this person makes. With that type of a spouse, you're going to hire a forensic, probably for at least business valuation, but also potentially income valuation, true income valuation. And then a third area that you might need a financial forensic would be the lifestyle analysis. So understanding how much you've spent on your lifestyle in the last probably 12 months, maybe 24 depending on whether or not there was a major shift. Some states don't count like savings, regular savings as a lifestyle. So if the party regularly put $5,000 a month aside in savings, since that's not going to considered a need. As far as the needs analysis for a lifestyle analysis for a support claim, don't get a job right before because then that income is going to be counted toward your support claim and reduce your need.
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