It Is Not Marital Misconduct If Your Ex’s Plans To Get Rich Didn’t Work Out

Nothing destroys trust in marriages like when one spouse lies to the other. Sometimes lies about money can feel even more like a betrayal than carrying on secret conversations with an opposite sex friend, or even behavior that fits everyone’s definition of cheating. Lying is not simply stating something that is not true; the intent to deceive is part of the definition of lying. This is as important in divorce cases involving allegations of marital misconduct as it is in criminal trials about fraud or civil lawsuits about defamation. It is not lying when you make a mistake or retell something according to your own erroneous or incomplete understanding of it. It is also not lying when you say something that you know is untrue for humorous effect, assuming that the audience will understand that it is untrue. A lie is only a lie if the liar knows that it is false but intends for the listener to believe that it is true. Lying about money can affect the outcome of your divorce case, but most disagreements over finances, betrayal, or both do not meet the definition of marital misconduct. If your marriage fell apart because your spouse sabotaged your finances and lied to you about it, contact a Birmingham divorce lawyer.

What Marital Misconduct Is, and What It Is Not

Marital misconduct occurs when, in the last two years before the divorce filing, one spouse intentionally reduces the value of the marital property so that there will be less for the court to divide, thus financially harming the other spouse. For example, it is marital misconduct if your spouse transferred the title of his car, his boat, and your vacation home to his siblings, so he would not have to compensate you for them in the divorce. It is also marital misconduct if your spouse spent thousands of dollars from your joint savings account traveling to visit her affair partner.

These days, everyone is talking about future faking, also known as financial love bombing. This is when, early in the relationship, your spouse makes unrealistic promises about your future financial circumstances, such as if he promises, when proposing to you, that you will never have to work and you will travel internationally every year. This cannot be marital misconduct, because it happened years before the marriage fell apart. Likewise, no one can be completely sure of what will happen in the future. If you were foolish to believe that your spouse would get rich after you got married, so was your spouse. Plenty of marriages fall apart because of unrealistic expectations, and it is no one’s fault.

Contact Peeples Law About Moving On After the Financial Dreams You and Your Spouse Believed In Fell Apart

A Birmingham family law attorney can help you if the plans for an easy life that you and your spouse made when you got married did not come true.  Contact Peeples Law in Birmingham, Alabama today to schedule a consultation.

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msn.com/en-us/news/technology/a-major-factor-in-gen-z-and-millennial-divorce-is-financial-future-faking-it-s-like-long-term-partner-catfishing-about-money/ar-AA1TZGKp?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ACTS&cvid=69690d5db80b41ba94bef80a42593c2d&ei=24

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-funny-bone-to-pick/202406/how-future-faking-can-be-used-to-manipulate-you