“Everyone is familiar with the importance of financial disclosure to family law litigation: the failure to make this disclosure “impedes the progress of the action, causes delay”, prejudices the requesting party, and wastes judicial time, and stalls disposition of the proceeding. See Roberts v Roberts, 2015 ONCA 450, at para 12.
But the failure to properly litigate these motions is part of the problem. Parties can disagree about the relevance and scope of disclosure. But they should do reasonably—they and their lawyers have to cooperate and communicate about the issues, no matter their feelings about the other side. Anything less will just cost money, take time, and frustrate the process.”