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    Question Spouse is Not Complying With a Discovery Order During Divorce

    My question involves a marriage in the state of: California

    Hi,

    I was running a discovery for finances on my spouses, she had been hiding money for a long time and never showed it to the court. I asked her formally several times and then did a motion to compel discovery, which went through and now I have a court order that orders my spouse to reveal her finances. What is the next step? Does the court enforce this (since it is a court order) or do I have to start contempt of court procedings?

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    Default Re: Spouse is Not Complying With a Discovery Order During Divorce

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    My question involves a marriage in the state of: California

    Hi,

    I was running a discovery for finances on my spouses, she had been hiding money for a long time and never showed it to the court. I asked her formally several times and then did a motion to compel discovery, which went through and now I have a court order that orders my spouse to reveal her finances. What is the next step? Does the court enforce this (since it is a court order) or do I have to start contempt of court procedings?
    Has she provided nothing, or is she simply not providing information on assets that you believe exist, but might not?

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    She has provided nothing, not responded to the discovery requests. I do know for a fact that the assets do exist, she has about 160,000 dollars on offshore bank accounts. She has so far not shown them on her income and expense declarations, usually writes "unknown" on them. I might not get to the offshore bank accounts, but I know that she filled out a foreign bank account report with the IRS, which you have to if you have more than 10k in offshore bank accounts and I asked for that form from her and the court has granted my discovery request (the motion to compel) and gave her 30 days to fork it over, but of course, like always: no response, no reaction, nothing.

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    Default Re: Spouse is Not Complying With a Discovery Order During Divorce

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    She has provided nothing, not responded to the discovery requests. I do know for a fact that the assets do exist, she has about 160,000 dollars on offshore bank accounts. She has so far not shown them on her income and expense declarations, usually writes "unknown" on them. I might not get to the offshore bank accounts, but I know that she filled out a foreign bank account report with the IRS, which you have to if you have more than 10k in offshore bank accounts and I asked for that form from her and the court has granted my discovery request (the motion to compel) and gave her 30 days to fork it over, but of course, like always: no response, no reaction, nothing.
    What would be the original source of these assets? Were they inheritances or gifts from her family?

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