What do you do when you have a private bank account and find your wife has been using it buther name is not on it?
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What do you do when you have a private bank account and find your wife has been using it buther name is not on it?
It appears that wife found a check and has been using that number to pay over the phone for items. Then when I transferred banks she continued to use the number. All of this without my knowledge or approval.
Asked on August 22, 2011 Colorado
Answers:
M.T.G., Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
This is not an easy question to give guidance on. There are more facts needed to asses the situation. Why do you have a separate bank account? Isthe bank account filled with pre-marital money and would it be considered separate property in a divorce? Or have you making deposits during the marriage in to the account? Money earned during a marriage is marital money regardless of which bank account you house it in or whose name is on the account. So you see: it is hard to tell you what you should do about this other than maybe coming clean to your wife about your assets. Good luck to you.
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