- Choose a new host country where you'll disappear for at least a few years. Select it based on your preferences, tax laws, lack of fiscal and judicial cooperation with your home country, and the ability to use cash and crypto.
- Gradually close your accounts, and don’t get caught off guard by your spouse.
- Close all your French accounts and liquidate all assets: savings accounts, life insurance, PEA, brokerage accounts, crowdfunding, SCPI.
- Sell any real estate you fully own.
- Try to convince your wife to sell jointly owned real estate. If you fail, forget about it—it will go to her after the divorce.
- Move your cryptocurrencies off platforms if you've declared them or if your spouse or children know about them.
- Bring in as much cash as legally allowed when entering your new host country.
- Open crypto exchange accounts in your destination country.
- Create crypto wallets (BTC, ETH, Monero).
- Open a Monero wallet: no public tracking unlike other blockchains.
- Use a crypto mixer to anonymise your crypto transfers
- Use private wallets (Ledger, Trezor, etc.).
- Create multiple wallets and spread your holdings.
- Find crypto platforms without KYC (no identity verification).
- Familiarize yourself with converting one crypto to another.
- Learn how to bridge between different blockchains.
- Open an offshore company, e.g., an LLC in the U.S., and a brokerage account in the name of that company. It adds a layer of opacity.
- Renew your passport (so you don’t need to do it again for 10 years).
- Get a long-term visa in your destination country, allowing you to obtain tax residency. This is essential to no longer be fiscally tied to your home country and vanish from the radar.
How to Become Invisible
- Leave no official address in France.
- Change your email and phone number.
- Avoid social media like the plague.
Set Up Your New Life in Your Host Country
- Inform your home country's tax authorities of your change of tax residence.
- Your daily expenses should be paid in cash, crypto, or with a crypto card (e.g., Crypto.com, Nexo).
- Make a partial cash-out of your crypto through a local platform to obtain cash.
- Do not get into a relationship with a local woman—don't make the same mistakes. Only short-time fun with joyful ladies.
- Do not return to your home country for several years.
How to Invest After a Divorce So Your Ex-Wife Can’t Touch Your Money
- Invest in crypto—either decentralized or centralized exchanges.
- Invest only abroad.
- Invest through an offshore company (US LLC, Nevis, Belize, Seychelles, etc.). The company owns the assets, not you directly.
- Store value in a safe: precious stones bought in cash.
- Donor-advised funds, foreign trusts, foundations—complex, but allow you to control money without it being legally yours.
- Buy via a trusted local proxy—morally risky, but useful if well chosen.
Which Southeast Asian Countries to Choose?
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🇰🇭 Cambodia
- No tax treaty with France.
- Easy to get long-term visas.
- You can buy property in your own name or through a local company.
- Banks have little or no cooperation.
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🇱🇦 Laos
- Very little international cooperation.
- Outdated banking tech = low traceability.
- Visa available via business or investment.
- Discreet, few tourists, easy to live under the radar.
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🇲🇲 Myanmar (High risk, but very discreet)
- Political instability, but ideal to disappear.
- No judicial or tax treaty with France.
- Obsolete banking system, poor traceability.
- Not recommended long-term, but useful for cutting ties.
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🇹🇭 Thailand (comfortable, but be cautious)
- Cooperates with France in serious legal matters (but slowly). Not for divorce.
- Great if you want to live well without putting everything in your name.
- No tax on foreign income brought after one year.
- You can live in crypto or cash.
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🇻🇳 Vietnam
- Still limited cooperation.
- You can live off the radar, but banking is monitored.
- Ideal if you deal mostly in cash or crypto.
