Divorce · Income · Assets
Financial investigations during divorce and separation
Verify business interests, lifestyle and financial discrepancies during divorce. INVESTIPOLE conducts confidential enquiries around the specific facts you need to clarify.
Clear positioning. Your detectives gather facts; your lawyer integrates them into the file; it is for the judge to set, refuse or revise the award.
DISPARITY AND DIVORCE
divorce financial settlement: check income, assets and lifestyle
An investigation is justified in the face of incomplete declarations: undeclared activity, concealed assets, received rents, shell company, expenses unrelated to reported income or shared living reducing costs. Your detectives all have at least 10 years of experience, and Investipole has been supporting these patrimonial cases for nearly 20 years.
REAL SITUATION
Hidden patrimony, concealed income: facts to establish
The objective: to seek to establish what actually exists; quantifying and qualifying remains the judge's responsibility.
Hidden activity
Persistent role in a society, undeclared work, followed clients, while official income remains low.
Undisclosed assets
Housing, corporation, secondary residence, rental or active property identified in public sources and absent from reporting.
Discrepant lifestyle
Vehicles, leisure, travel, expenses or regular benefits to be met with established resources and expenses.
New life together
Stable cohabitation or apparent burden-sharing, without assuming its impact or crossing the home threshold.
OBSERVER, POWER
Observe a lifestyle without calculating it.
Frequent travel, housing, vehicle, or visible expenses may sometimes indicate inconsistency, but the source of funding remains to be established. An asset may belong to a third party, a car may be rented, a stay may be gifted. The report describes what is observed and lists the documents still required.
CONCERNED METHOD
divorce financial settlement: the process of an investigation
The mission aims at a precise contradiction and excludes any general search unrelated to the legal criteria.
Status report
Individual claims, reported resources, known assets, divorce schedule and points of inconsistency are reviewed.
Fact to prove
With you and your lawyer, the fact to be established is defined, as is the legal framework and missing documents.
Checks
Public sources, companies, identifiable assets, activity, occupation and standard of living are subject to targeted controls.
Report and next steps
Dated and hurled facts, distinct from the assumptions, allow your lawyer to claim additional documents or statements.
EVIDENCE AND REVIEW
Detective report, sworn statement and review
The report supplements the financial documents; to quantify the difference between spouses or to fix an amount remains outside his role.
The report can be filed in court; the judge appreciates its value. Activity, attendance at a professional place, occupation of property, apparent common life or visible expenses are included with dates, sources and limits. Your lawyer may then claim contract, accounting, statement, act or expertise.
On-site findings
Activity, occupation, travel, cohabitation and expenditure, observed from the public space.
Documentary investigations
Companies, advertisements, registers and acts searchable, without intrusion into bank or tax files.
Lawyer and judge reading
Confrontation with statements of honour, financial documents and legal criteria.
TOOLS AND LIMITS
Investigation methods: what's allowed, what's not
Each question its tool; a private investigator respects the home, correspondence and protected data, and limits any invasion of privacy to the strict necessity of proof.
Targeted observation
Activity, journeys, repeated presence and occupation of a place, seen from the public space.
Open sources
Companies, advertisements, goods and public information, intertwined with the documents already entered in the file.
Additional findings
Excluded protected data
Accounts, taxes, private exchanges and confidential files are never consulted, either by cunning or under false quality.
DISPERSED PATRIMONY
Assets and activities spread across several cities or countries
Residence, companies, rented property, second home, activity carried out elsewhere: assets are sometimes spread across several territories. Investipole coordinates research and observations to deliver a single timeline and report.
Outside France, feasibility depends on accessible registers, local rules and the presence of authorised partners. No research opens up privileged access to banks, tax or non-public acts.
ANNOUNCERED INVESTIGATIONS
Maintenance payment: inconsistencies found, nuanced suspicions
In these anonymized files, the report has identified an inconsistency or nuanced suspicion, without ever quantifying the benefit.
Hidden activity
A company left only on paper
In the event of a divorce in dispute, a husband claimed that he had lost income since his official departure from his company. However, there were several indications that a relative was acting as a relay to continued management. On targeted time windows, your detectives found that the spouse came on site every day, received clients and headed teams; public sources confirmed links with the structure. The report neither estimated remuneration nor presented the spouse as an officer of law. This document described a regular activity, incompatible with the lack of role invoked by the spouse. The lawyer relied on these facts to demand accounting documents and to re-enter the real employment situation into the examination of resources and prospects.
Assets
An apartment overlooked in asset transfers
A wife thought that an apartment, never mentioned in the discussions on wealth, had been acquired before the separation. Legal sources were cross-checked: real estate civil society, address, public advertisements related to housing. On the spot, your detectives confirmed a regular occupation and an apparent provision for the benefit of a third party. Prices, financing and rents remained outside the scope of the investigation, due to lack of legal access to these data. The report presented the public links, dated observations and remaining uncertainties. The lawyer was able to claim acts and proofs, so that this property would be discussed adversarially in divorce and liquidation.
Standard of living
A lifestyle partly explained by a company
In spite of the resources declared modest, according to the other party, one spouse maintained the same way of life: high-end cars, frequent trips, expensive establishments. Rather than multiplying isolated clichés, the mission concentrated on a few representative periods and on the apparent origin of these benefits. The car appeared attached to a company related to the person concerned, and several trips were part of his professional activity. The report therefore nuanced the suspicion of departure, while establishing that means financed by the structure were regularly used for personal purposes. The lawyer reconciled these findings with accounting in order to discuss the benefits in kind and the actual expenses incurred.
Living conditions
A life as a couple, presented as a single life
On the other hand, the other spouse suspected a lasting arrangement with a new partner and wanted to verify the apparent sharing of expenses. Over several weeks, your detectives raised regular nights, departures in the morning, shopping together and the constant use of the address by both persons. No conjugalization in legal terms was claimed, no income from the evaluated third party, no entry into the dwelling attempted. The report described a stable daily organization, visible from the public space. The lawyer considered it appropriate to reconcile these living conditions with declarations of honour and other financial documents.
LEGAL REPRESENTATIONS
Maintenance payment FAQ
divorce financial settlement, maintenance and wealth sharing have different objectives; these responses help to distinguish them.
Private detective and maintenance payment: in which cases?
As soon as an economic point is contested (income, activity, property, expenses, cohabitation) and a legitimate interest warrants lawful and proportionate verification.
Income hidden by the spouse: what proof?
Your detectives can establish a real activity, functions performed, customers followed or apparent benefits. Encrypting these revenues then involves accounting, tax or banking documents, obtained by legal means.
Undeclared assets: is it possible to locate them?
Your detectives mobilize public sources and accessible registers, seek to identify companies, goods or ads, then check on the ground. No protected file is consulted.
Lifestyle and support: how much does it matter?
One index among others: resources, expenses, goods and prospects are valued globally, and each visible expenditure needs to be viewed in its context.
Bank accounts and taxes: can a detective access them?
No. These data are protected; your lawyer can ask the judge to order them, based on facts established in the field and lawful sources.
How much does an investigation related to divorce financial settlement cost?
The fee for a private investigator consulted about a divorce financial settlement varies from 90 to 120 € tax excl. per hour according to several criteria, with free quotation. Provide around 975 € tax excl. per day; an all inclusive package covers five days for approximately €4,500 excluding VAT
How long does an asset investigation take?
A few days may be sufficient for documentary verifications; demonstrating a common activity, life or recurrent expenses requires time-distributed observations.
Assets abroad: possible to investigate?
Each country has its own records and rules; the feasibility is assessed on a case-by-case basis, with an authorised partner if necessary. Retrieving all assets held outside France can never be guaranteed.
Who gets the results?
You alone, then your lawyer or the file professionals if you decide.
PRE-EXCHANGE
A disparity is proven with facts.
Disputed statements, known assets, indices, procedural schedule: describe the situation by telephone or at contact@investipole.fr. Feasibility, written intervention framework and free quotation are then offered.
Real activity · Goods · Expenditure · Living together · Rent