Has anyone had an experience, or can give advise on a summons issue: we are in trial next month, and we've gone through a year of disclosure and discovery requests because:
a. I was unemployed for a while
b. started a company with a business partner (revenue 2010 was < 30k)
c. I found a new job mid-2010
The disclosure stands at 2 boxes.
Now, 3 weeks before trial, my ex issues a summons to my business partner... who I've already summoned to testify about our startup.
My ex's summons is asking for a number of documents that were never requested in a year of disclosure including requesting my business partner to disclose her personal income outside of our business together (from their own, unrelated full time job) and other unrelated items.
It's a fishing expedition, and it seems wrong to do this through summons at trial and not 3rd party disclosure orders before trial.
I thought trial was the trying of evidence, not gathering of evidence.
Advice on how to get this issue of 'summons as discovery tool' dealt with at trial? We're both self rep.
Thanks-
FG
a. I was unemployed for a while
b. started a company with a business partner (revenue 2010 was < 30k)
c. I found a new job mid-2010
The disclosure stands at 2 boxes.
Now, 3 weeks before trial, my ex issues a summons to my business partner... who I've already summoned to testify about our startup.
My ex's summons is asking for a number of documents that were never requested in a year of disclosure including requesting my business partner to disclose her personal income outside of our business together (from their own, unrelated full time job) and other unrelated items.
It's a fishing expedition, and it seems wrong to do this through summons at trial and not 3rd party disclosure orders before trial.
I thought trial was the trying of evidence, not gathering of evidence.
Advice on how to get this issue of 'summons as discovery tool' dealt with at trial? We're both self rep.
Thanks-
FG
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