Burger v. Burger

REDMANN, Judge.

We granted certiorari in this suit for partition of community property to review the trial judge’s refusal of protective orders against an ex-wife’s deposing of her ex-husband concerning his earnings, and subpoenaing his income tax returns and his employer’s payroll records, for the five years the parties lived apart from each other subsequent to the filing in Jefferson parish of the husband’s never-terminated “separation” (actually, divorce) action but prior to the filing in Orleans parish of the husband’s successful divorce action.

The ex-wife’s theory is that a husband’s…