SCHAEFFER v. SCHAEFFER


70 Misc.2d 1033 (1972)

Rodalie Schaeffer, Plaintiff, v. Willard Schaeffer, Defendant.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Nassau County.

August 18, 1972


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Aronwald for plaintiff. Fine, Tofel, Saxl & Goldstein for defendant.


BERTRAM HARNETT, J.

It is time to re-evaluate and lay aside obsolete precedents inhibiting in contested matrimonial matters a wife's right to examine before trial into her husband's financial affairs. This conclusion is compelled by the underlying policies of the pretrial disclosure provisions of the CPLR, the changed legislative and high court philosophies with respect to divorce, and revised social expectations...

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