It took six years, several judges, 40 court orders, six offers to settle, more than 20 motions and, finally, a 12-day trial to achieve a court ruling in the case of Vineet Mehra and his ex-wife Jyoti Lakhtakia
A man who hid assets and attempted to deceive the judges in his divorce case has been ordered to pay $1-million to cover his ex-wife’s legal costs, an unusually large financial penalty upheld by Ontario’s top court that signals no tolerance for bad behaviour in family disputes.
The Ontario Court of Appeal acknowledged that a million-dollar legal tab in a family dispute is a steep price for the losing side to pay. But it had no qualms about promptly upholding that amount, in a ruling this month. In her estimation, egregious misconduct accounts for just one per cent of cases, but takes up 90 per cent of court time. Ms. Yates has worked closely with judges and members of the family-law bar on committees, and has chaired the Ontario Bar Association’s family-law section.
Mr. Mehra, who owns businesses outside of Canada, said just before the dispute went to trial that his annual income was $219,000. During the trial, he said it was at most $430,000. And he hired a financial expert to prove it. Ms. Lakhtakia’s financial expert billed her at $430 an hour, a rate the judge found reasonable; the cost of the expert made up $275,000 of the $950,000 tab.
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