The applicant wife sought extensive financial disclosure and interim security for spousal support, while the respondent husband also sought disclosure and resisted some of the wife's requests, particularly concerning disputed separation dates and solicitor-client privilege.
The court made conditional orders for disclosure, requiring third-party real estate appraisals over MPAC assessments, and addressed the timing of tracing reports.
On privilege, the court found the wife had waived privilege over a former lawyer's file and an email chain by placing her state of mind and the communication in issue, but denied her request for the husband's legal consultation dates as irrelevant.
For interim security, the court ordered the husband to designate the wife as a revocable beneficiary of $500,000 in life insurance, with an option for the wife to increase it to $1 million by paying additional premiums.
The husband was deemed more successful, and the wife was ordered to pay him $12,500 in costs.
