My Wife has been hiding money for years

In these instances, your family law lawyer would ask for copies of all financial records. However, sometimes it is going to be difficult to know exactly what you should be asking for. The discovery process may include several different methods, such as document demands, oral questioning, requests for admissions, inspection demands so that you inspect certain assets, testimony under oath and so on. Through these methods you would need to formulate a planned approach with your lawyer to tackle these challenging discovery issues. You would start with a breakdown of historical income and finances and move onto tracing the spouse's income into accounts and attempting to tally or trace income into the accounts. If the income does not total up to the entries into the accounts then there would be further discoveries necessary. For example, you would potentially tally up the unaccounted income which is not shown that goes into the accounts and perhaps argue that those monies represent unaccounted assets as at the date of separation. Your lawyer may decide that this complicated exercise is best to be completed by an expert in the field of income analysis.