Opinion ID: 1937963
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Misrepresentations in Edward's Interrogatories

Text: In a hearing before the referee, Mary's original expert witness, Mr. Romer, testified that he compared Edward's income tax returns with Edward's answers to interrogatories served in connection with the motion to vacate the 1979 judgment and decree. Mr. Romer testified that Edward's 1985 tax return reported the sale of Two Hundred Fifty-eight Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($258,000.00) in stock, but that Edward's answers to interrogatories did not disclose this. Edward's 1985 tax return indicated that approximately One Hundred Seventy-eight Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($178,000.00) in shares of stock were acquired in 1980 or 1981. In December of 1985, Mary served a set of interrogatories on Edward in connection with a request for an increase in child support from the Two Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($200.00) per month awarded in the 1979 judgment and decree. Edward had to be ordered by the court to answer these interrogatories. When he finally did so in April of 1986, he alleged that he was living on Eight Hundred Twenty-two and 49/100 Dollars ($822.49) per month. In the same year, Edward told the Internal Revenue Service that he earned Fifty-one Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($51,000.00). In 1985 and 1986, at the same time he indicated that he was having difficulty paying Two Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($200.00) per month child support, Edward took several trips to Rio de Janeiro, several skiing trips to Colorado, and a trip to China.