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Request for Petitioner’s Income Tax Records Properly Denied—Insufficient Showing the Desired Information Could Not Be Gained from Other Sources

Over a two-justice dissent, the Fourth Department determined petitioner could not be ordered to turn over his income tax records.  Petitioner claimed that he had provided the down payment and monthly mortgage payments for decedent’s home where petitioner resided. Petitioner further claimed that decedent promised the home to him in a verbal agreement (and therefore the home should not pass by the will to petitioner’s sister).  Respondent wanted access to petitioner’s tax records to see if petitioner had sufficient income to make the down payment:

We conclude that Surrogate’s Court properly denied respondent’s motion, inasmuch as respondent has not made a sufficiently strong showing that the information contained in petitioner’s income tax records “were indispensable to this litigation and unavailable from other sources” …, such as “other financial or business records” … . Indeed, respondent “failed to make any factual showing in this regard, since the hearsay affirmation[s] of [respondent’s] attorney [are] wholly conclusory” …, petitioner’s deposition testimony, the only exhibit submitted in support of the motion, accounted for petitioner’s employment history during the times in question, although in a vague manner …, and respondent did not establish that it sought the requested information from any alternate source… .  Matter of Monaco, 2014 NY Slip Op 03423, 4th Dept 5-9-14

 

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