The respondent wife brought a motion for an order requiring detailed financial disclosure from the applicant husband and three non-party, privately held corporations in which the husband holds a minority shareholding.
The husband had failed to value his corporate interests despite acknowledging this obligation in his originating application filed over a year prior.
The wife sought disclosure to determine the husband's income for support purposes and the value of his corporate assets.
The husband and the corporations opposed disclosure without a comprehensive non-disclosure agreement.
The court found the wife met the test for non-party disclosure and ordered production of specified corporate documents and financial information without requiring the wife to sign an NDA, instead relying on the Family Law Rules' confidentiality provisions and professional obligations of counsel and experts.
The court also ordered that the proceedings be initialized to protect the corporations' privacy interests.
