Deliberate non disclosure is taken seriously by the court. If a person is found to have tried to hide an asset or to conceal its true value, they can be penalised either by being ordered to pay the other party’s costs or by receiving a less favourable settlement. The court is also entitled to draw “adverse inferences” from your family’s life style if it can be demonstrated by you to be inconsistent with the level of financial resources disclosed. The court can make an order on the basis that there is a certain amount of money available, though such orders may be hard to implement unless there are clear assets against which they can be enforced.