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Next, you should make your best efforts to find out what property you owned and what debts you were responsible for when you and your spouse began to live together or got married, whichever was earlier. The online statements most banks provide don't go back more than two or three years, so you may have to dig into your paper files or think about ordering old statements from your banks and other financial institutions. | Next, you should make your best efforts to find out what property you owned and what debts you were responsible for when you and your spouse began to live together or got married, whichever was earlier. The online statements most banks provide don't go back more than two or three years, so you may have to dig into your paper files or think about ordering old statements from your banks and other financial institutions. | ||
While you are preparing this tally, do not ever open any mail or other correspondence that belongs to your spouse only unless you have their permission to do so. Recording the addresses and information on the outside of any envelope you receive is fine, as anybody can see that. But intruding on your spouse's privacy is not a good idea, even if you are thinking of separating. | |||
==New debts== | ==New debts== | ||
