The moving parties sought pre-discovery disclosure of the responding parties' personal and corporate tax returns, notices of assessment, and bank statements from 2002 to 2019.
The underlying litigation involves a real estate development dispute where the moving parties allege the responding parties improperly used mortgage proceeds for personal expenses.
The court found the requested documents were relevant to tracing funds and testing the responding parties' assertions about their contributions to the property.
The court ordered the production of the tax returns and bank statements, but limited the temporal scope to the period between 2002 and 2016, when the property was sold.
