Episode 15: When the divorce process starts, spouses need to play out their suspicions, if any, about their ex's bad actions. Spouses who want to protect themselves need to dig into three big areas where trouble typically is found. She discusses secretive behaviors, a spouse who has taken on additional control over family finances or transactions that are often hidden in plain sight -- using cash or secret credit accounts -- that show telltale signs of what's really going on.

Episode 14: Many spouses trust their partner when it comes to filing taxes, and sign the annual documents without always realizing what's in there. Once the marriage is being dissolved, however, what's in the tax return -- or missing from it -- can have real consequences in properly settling the finances during a split. Today, Tracy tells you what to look for and at in the family tax documents, and the impact that your findings will have on the resolution of your case.

Episode 13: There are about a dozen ways in which spouses typically hide their financial moves -- and these menthods are not particuarly hard to uncover. Anyone suspecting an ex of moving money will find most of those bad moves in tax documents, bank statements, and credit card records. This week, Tracy talks about what to look for, and how easy or hard it can be to find.

Episode 12: You don't need your ex's cooperation -- or even help from their accountant or tax preparer -- to get tax documents that will help identify the family's money flow, but you will need to go through a process to get those papers. This week, Tracy discusses how to get the tax paperwork, but also follows up on advice from her Divorce Money Guide on spotting troublesome transactions in common hiding places, notably on credit-card statements and in extra accounts.

Episode 11: The process of rooting through financial statements and mountains of individual transactions seems gargantuan, but Tracy says that partners who are hiding or redirecting money leave behind telltale clues and signs that often can only be found in all of that data. This week, Tracy discusses how her Divorce Money Guide can be the resource for rooting out the problems and finding the clues that lead to the spots where money is hidden, turning a tall task into an effort that is much less daunting and more accessible and likely to succeed in finding anything that's been squirreled away.

Episode 10: While many divorce finance stories focus on men hiding money, Tracy says this week that gender doesn't have as much to do with financial infidelity as it does with control. Most couples have one partner in charge of paying the bills and managing the account statements, and this has the potential to create a power imbalance. That disproportionate control can lead to other relationship issues, if the partner with financial control feels they're not trusted or the partner who has ceded control worries about the things they're not seeing. Tracy explains how to equalize the power imbalance in a way that strengthens both financial awareness and the relationship itself.

Episode 9: Thinking that your partner or ex is hiding money may be the start of a high-stakes game, but you need to know where to go seeking in order to see if your suspicions will pay off. This week, Tracy discusses using credit reports, bank statements and other account paperwork to separate out the habits and routines from the red flags, new trends, changes and telltale signs of trouble. Not every problem turns out to be something that is worth pursuing or that can be recovered, but Tracy warns against assuming that the behavior being too small, noting that the small clues often can lead to uncovering the bigger, more troublesome issues.

Episode 8: Finding the money is the second action in a game of financial hide-and-seek. This week, Tracy discusses how many people in the times leading up to a divorce -- at a point when they think the relationship is headed for a split -- start doing "divorce financial planning," hiding money and financial actions in order to protect their assets and cash-flow while minimizing what their spouse would take away from a split. Tracy discusses the actions that are common among spouses who are blurring their financial picture or disguising their money moves.

Episode 7: There's a fine line that separates normal financial behaviors from bad ones, and Tracy discusses how little white lies and power disparities within a couple -- along with the desire from one or both partners to maintain or improve their control over spending decisions and family money -- can lead people to cross that line, straying into financial infidelities that can mushroom quickly from minor concern to a threat to the family relationship.

Episode 6: Knowing that there has been financial infidelity and proving it can be two different things. Armed with the financial documents, it's time to lay out what happened to the money and to prove the case. Tracy discusses putting it all together and not only to determine what can be recovered but to decide if there needs to be an 'unequal division of assets,' where distributions in a way that's fair -- based on the family's financial history and the proof of the case -- but not 50-50.