Lehman v. Superior Court

Opinion

SONENSHINE, J.

In the underlying marital dissolution proceeding, the trial court granted wife’s motion to compel production of documents but only as to property in existence on the date the parties separated. Wife contends the court’s ruling imposes an impermissible restriction on her right to discovery. We agree and issue a writ.

I

The parties separated in March 1983 after a six-and-one-half-year marriage. Husband, a physician, subsequently terminated the medical practice he started in 1979, and opened a new office under the name West Orange Medical Group, Inc. Over the next few years he…