Almost invariably, a spouse will say I think my husband or wife is hiding assets. And so the first thing I look at is I think okay, what kind of wage earner was this person. If I have a man that’s been working let’s just say making $100,000.00 a year with a W2 income for a period of time and I look at the parties expenses I’m pretty comfortable in knowing that they spent what he earned and there’s probably not a lot of assets that have been sequestered somewhere.

It’s when I have a person that runs business or has family partnerships and maybe is from another country and has some property overseas those are the cases where I start thinking okay, something’s not right here. I think assets were shuffled around and so I start with the basics let’s look at the tax returns, let’s look at all the bank statements and then we start developing theories of okay, there’s some assets that should be here that aren’t here, what are some transactions that don’t make sense. And that’s how we start in looking at undiscovered assets.