Is there a legal way to investigate another person's finances?

[jds2006]

So right now my aunt is in quite a difficult situation. Her husband took out a 100k loan a few years ago claiming that it would be spent to fund his children's college tuitions, but now it's all gone and he can't even pay for his son's community college classes. He's also in huge financial trouble right now... One of his cars was recently towed away at night because he had failed to make the payments for the past 4 months, and now he can't even pay his $20 phone bill. My aunt has a feeling that he gambled it all away, but she has no proof of this. So is there a legal way she can find out how he spent the money? Like can she hire some kind of accounting investigator to see where it all went?

 

[rstrohkirch]

I'm assuming you mean ex-husband?

 

[Miramonti]

Unfortunately it sounds like he has a drug or gambling problem.

If you have his social security number you can find out a lot about him.

 

[Ns1]

n/m

 

[Dufman]

Does she have a Power of Attorney for him. If she does she can go about it that way.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

If she asks for help then help her. Otherwise, mind your own business.

 

[txrandom]

Social Security Number + Free Credit Report

Probably illegal if you don't have permission, but you could gain some important information.

 

[Epic Fail]

Legal way?

Like getting a warrant to tap into logs from NSA to see his spending habits from remote recorders that were embedded in the US currency?

 

[Mokmo418]

I sincerily hope your aunt did not take any of these debts under her name or cosigned.

Don't let the guy drag other people into his hellhole