The court imposed a $3,000 daily fine and a strict 45-day deadline on a respondent for persistent financial non-disclosure, warning that pleadings would be struck for further non-compliance.
The applicant, Galit Altman, brought a motion under Rule 1(8) of the Family Law Rules to strike the respondent, Yoel Altman's, pleadings due to his persistent non-compliance with multiple court orders regarding financial disclosure and asset preservation.
The court found Yoel in breach of his rolling disclosure obligations, failure to provide corporate financial records, and improper accounting of funds under a preservation order, including undisclosed accounts and transactions.
While not immediately striking the pleadings, the court imposed a daily fine of $3,000 for continued non-compliance and set a 45-day deadline, after which the applicant could move ex parte to strike the pleadings, emphasizing that financial non-disclosure is "the cancer of family law" and that full compliance is the expectation.
