Robustelli v. Robustelli

—In an action for a divorce and ancillary relief, the defendant appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Weiner, J.), dated July 2, 1998, as granted that branch of the plaintiff’s motion which was to preclude him from introducing evidence as to his finances at trial based upon his failure to comply with court-ordered discovery.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

“In order to invoke the drastic remedy of preclusion, the court must determine that the offending party’s lack of cooperation with disclosure was willful, deliberate, and contumacious”…