Have your significant others been hiding finances from you?

My wife and I are working on trying to get a mortgage application put together in 12-18 months, and I've been trying to start planning for that. Problem is that she is not open with finances, and she isn't nearly as open with them as we promised we would be when we got married almost three years ago. Based on my discussions with her I really am starting to suspect there are some problems with her CCs that she does not want me to know about, maybe even an extra credit card or two that I do not know about. Obviously we're in need of marriage counseling (something we plan on doing as soon after our graduate degrees are finished), and quite frankly this isn't the only issue that I have with this marriage, but her intentionally avoiding this particular topic is very very bothersome.

Is there any way for me to legally get this information so that I can confront her about it? She sure as hell isn't going to give me the "smoking ***" and I've already asked her for her CC statements. Have any of you gone through this?
 

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