Legal Question in Family Law in Maryland

Re: Spouse search for assets

Your wife can't file for divorce without grounds, but she could leave and immediately file for spousal support, with an allegation of some reason for leaving such as "cruelty of treatment," which is often in the eye of the beholder and difficult to define. She would almost certainly be awarded support if she has no history of employment. You would then find yourself at war with your wife, which would probably wipe out any assets which you might have hidden and would certainly dissipate the resources you now have. I suspect that your wife feels like a dissatisfied 1950's wife who is ignorant of how to handle money and has never had a checking account or a check book. Unless there are other problems in your marriage which you haven't mentioned, you could probably best deal with the current situation by helping her become acquainted with bank accounts and tax returns and the handling of financial assets and ask her to pay some bills from a joint account. As for the starting of a business, most counties in Maryland have some agency which can consult with and advise people on how to do it and whether the business idea is sound, and you should encourage her to check that out. Unless your marriage after fifteen years is so full of misery that her desire to start a business and her suspicions about hidden assets are just the tip of an iceberg.