Chapter 8 - Searching The Family Residence For Concealed Assets
When we returned home at two in the morning, the house was dark, silent, and completely empty of my mother's presence. She had packed two large suitcases, taken her luxury SUV, and fled the house, leaving behind an empty closet and a messy trail of paper trash.
My father and I spent the rest of the night going through her home office desk, pulling out hidden thumb drives and tax documents. We discovered that my mother had opened four offshore credit lines using my father's social security number as collateral without his knowledge.
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"She ran up nearly two hundred thousand dollars in debt under my name over the past eighteen months," my father said, scrolling through the online credit reports. "If I file for divorce tomorrow, these debts could legally fall onto my shoulders during the asset division."
"Not if we prove she committed identity theft and financial fraud," I stated, saving every digital document onto an encrypted hard drive.
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