Divorce Truths: If you’re dealing with a spouse who keeps insisting something is “separate,” you

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]of whether the income on separate assets becomes marital or whether the income on separate assets is still separate. So, each state is actually going to be different. But, at the moment that you start to combine separate and marital assets, it could be commingled, right? And so, that is I can't tell, you know, if the dollar that came in from here is a separate dollar or if this is a marital dollar. And then, if it gets commingled so much, it could be transmuted from a separate asset into a marital asset. And so, that's kind of the beginning parts of it, and we can talk a little bit more about how we prove that out or or what proof it is.

[00:00:48]But, at the beginning, that's kind of like it Can they prove that it was held before marriage? Did the investment or the inheritance come in from some outside party? Did you put it only in your name?

[00:01:04]And then, did you keep the income separate? Or else, you're going to do a tracing of that asset to determine what portion is marital or separate?