Here’s the problem:
You know that your ex-wife and her boyfriend are living together. She will not admit to it, because if she does, she is at great risk for a reduction or termination of the alimony that she’s being receiving. She also knows that the burden and cost will fall on you to prove she’s living with her significant other.
How to prove cohabitation to eliminate or reduce alimony by the use of a competent investigative firm?
- Surveillance: To prove cohabitation can take months and although the photographic evidence is compelling, it’s expensive. It would have to show that the new beau is living full time (not just spending the night a few times a week).
- Records: Subpoena financial records, deeds, titles and licenses for address information of the boyfriend.
- Interviews: Provide statement and testimony from neighbors, family members and children of adult age, can also establish the existence of cohabitation.
- Trash: Only 51% of Americans shred their mail (Study conducted by Staples in 2007). Once you put your trash to the curb, it is public domain. Going through trash may show those sought after financial documents mentioned earlier, as well as other pieces of mail addressed to the significant other living with your ex.
These four steps are best when joined together. The best way of putting these steps together is retaining a private investigative firm to coordinate their efforts with you or your attorney to get the most information that may be helpful to prove your case and reduce or eliminate your alimony payments.
Thomas Ruskin 