In divorce actions, hiding martial assets is bad faith. Courts deal with spouse.

The reckless and deliberate dissipation of marital assets -- for example, gambling marital funds away in a careless fashion or making a large charity contribution -- may also be evidence of bad faith.

Frequently, courts face parties who manifest bad faith by obstructing the sanctions against an offender.

Courts try to deter bad faith with the threat of party who raises unnecessary issues.

Bad faith often stops this side of fraud. Fraud means acting in bad faith, but all actions of bad faith are not fraudulent. Fraud includes actions, direct and indirect, by which one part improperly exploits another. It includes acts deemed "bad," which are malfeasant; omissions, which are nonfeasant, and misrepresentations that induce someone of act with reliance but to his or her detriment.

Courts view elective unemployment or child support.

Courts sometimes deal with bad faith in connection with bankruptcy in an attempt to dodge the property settlement obligations.

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Moreover, the case included an explication of good and bad faith "when determining a spouse’s right to an party that are "vexatious, wanton, or carried out for oppressive reasons."

In Borzillo v. Borzillo, the court said that while bankruptcy is constitutionally protected, "the husband could nevertheless be found to have acted in bad faith by attempting to gain a discharge which he knew or should have known was not available to him."

The court rebuked the husband, who, it said, "was not satisfied with a bargain that relieved him of life-time alimony payments. Instead, he opted of what he thought would be a legal end run around his obligations, notwithstanding ’the obvious’ -- that such a gambit would jeopardize his child’s housing and would torpedo any modicum of protection for which his wife had bargained away permanent alimony."

Compare Good Faith.

See also Dissipation of Assets; Secretion of Assets.