Concealment is a fact you prove — courts can award a smaller share to the hiding spouse, not a TV-detective ending.
Civil Code family rules let a court give a smaller or zero share of an item to a spouse who hides, transfers, sells off or destroys community property, or fabricates debts. The work is evidence: bank trails, AIC filings, WeChat payment logs, third-party transferees, and investigation orders. City pieces on transferred assets stay local colour. A cousin holding the house is a classic pattern, not automatic fraud. Pair with freezing when the transfer is still in flight. Offshore accounts are harder, not imaginary.
4 questions before you choose the route.
This page identifies the right question and evidence. It does not determine the legal outcome on a reader’s facts.
What disappeared and when?
Relative to the fight starting.
WhenWhere did it go?
Bank, cousin, company, crypto.
WhereCan you freeze what is left?
Open preservation related pages.
FreezeIs it a real third-party buyer?
Bona fide purchaser fights.
ThirdWorking rule: Map the regulated role before marketing or launch in China.
The signal ledger.
These facts move the question beyond a label and into a product, money-flow and control analysis.
Bring a compact evidence docket—not a pitch deck.
Give a compliance team or counsel the operating facts that reveal the perimeter.
Questions people ask before they build.
Short answers for orientation. The right result can change with the service model and current rules.
Can the court give me 100% of the hidden flat?
It can tilt division against the hiding spouse. 100% is fact-specific, not a slogan.
What if the asset is already with a buyer?
Bona fide third-party rules may block easy unwind. Speed and freeze matter more than outrage.
Primary authorities
Reviewed sources support orientation, not a fact-specific assessment.