Asset Tracing

Asset tracing finds value a party would rather keep off a financial statement: real property, vehicles, companies, nominee holdings, and lifestyle that implies undeclared income. Investigations Plus runs these files for family law, fraud, debt recovery, and judgment enforcement. We are not a bank. We are investigators who know where Canadians hide ownership in public view.

When this service is the right file

• A spouse’s disclosure looks thin next to the house, the boat, and the cash business.
• A judgment debtor says they have nothing while still operating through a new numbered company.
• A fraud loss needs to follow the money to a reachable defendant.
• You are considering litigation and want to know if there is anything to collect.
• A friend is holding title and the beneficial owner is the person you are actually after.

How the investigation is done

We start with the known names, identity keys you can lawfully give, old addresses, and related companies. Land registries, corporate searches, PPSA-style thinking, court files, and open-source lifestyle then produce a map. Field visits confirm whether a property is occupied, renovated, or tenanted. We look for transfers to relatives around the dispute date. Banking and tax internals stay behind lawful process; we tell counsel what to ask a court for instead of pretending we already have it.

What you receive

• Corporate and property charts
• Title and encumbrance summaries
• Lifestyle and occupancy notes
• Related-party map
• A collectability or disclosure-gap memo

Legal and ethical limits

We do not bluff banks. We do not pretext CRA. Family-law tracing still has to respect disclosure rules and privacy. If you want Mareva or Norwich relief, that is a lawyer’s motion; we supply the affidavit facts.

Who typically retains this work

Family lawyers, commercial counsel, judgment creditors, and fraud victims. Competitors asking us to map a rival’s entire book of business without a legal file are declined.

Where we handle these files

Ontario registries are home ground. Other provinces and federal corporations are searched routinely. Offshore suggestions are scoped honestly: some are traces, some are brick walls.

Related services

These investigations are often used together. Open any service to see how we handle it.

• Divorce & Custody Investigation
• Skip Tracing
• Legal Support

If the numbers in the affidavit and the life in the driveway do not match, ask for an asset-trace consult. Bring the disclosure you already have so we do not pay to rediscover it.

Typical fact patterns

A spouse’s disclosure looks thin next to the house, the boat, and the cash business. A judgment debtor says they have nothing while still operating through a new numbered company. A fraud loss needs to follow the money to a reachable defendant. You are considering litigation and want to know if there is anything to collect. A friend is holding title and the beneficial owner is the person you are actually after.

Deliverables in practice

Corporate and property charts Title and encumbrance summaries Lifestyle and occupancy notes Related-party map A collectability or disclosure-gap memo We start with the known names, identity keys you can lawfully give, old addresses, and related companies. Land registries, corporate searches, PPSA-style thinking, court files, and open-source lifestyle then produce a map. Field visits confirm whether a property is occupied, renovated, or tenanted. We look for transfers to relatives around the dispute date. Banking and tax internals stay behind lawful process; we tell counsel what to ask a court for instead of pretending we already have it.

Family lawyers, commercial counsel, judgment creditors, and fraud victims. Competitors asking us to map a rival’s entire book of business without a legal file are declined. Ontario registries are home ground. Other provinces and federal corporations are searched routinely. Offshore suggestions are scoped honestly: some are traces, some are brick walls.

If the numbers in the affidavit and the life in the driveway do not match, ask for an asset-trace consult. Bring the disclosure you already have so we do not pay to rediscover it. We do not bluff banks. We do not pretext CRA. Family-law tracing still has to respect disclosure rules and privacy. If you want Mareva or Norwich relief, that is a lawyer’s motion; we supply the affidavit facts.

Asset tracing finds value a party would rather keep off a financial statement: real property, vehicles, companies, nominee holdings, and lifestyle that implies undeclared income. Investigations Plus runs these files for family law, fraud, debt recovery, and judgment enforcement. We are not a bank. We are investigators who know where Canadians hide ownership in public view. If the numbers in the affidavit and the life in the driveway do not match, ask for an asset-trace consult. Bring the disclosure you already have so we do not pay to rediscover it.