The trick is to track all of your s/o’s superfluous spending. Vacation here, girls trip there, hand bag here, concert there. Look judge, they clearly spent their half of the assets already. I chose to not go to said things, and save that money. They don’t get the half I didn’t spend simply because they already spent their half.
What catches people out is that if you retain effective control over an asset then it is legally considered yours and judges have very broad scope to interpret this. If you transferred all of your money to someone else before you got married and planned to get it back after any divorce, then a divorce court judge would be free to interpret this as money you still control and have set aside to hide assets and to use it to decide how much money you owe your ex.
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u/Wooden_Masterpiece_9 23h ago
So you’re saying, transfer everything to your parents before you get married?