Court Opinion

ID: 9722702
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:46:11.01422+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:08:09.700560
License: Public Domain

MATHIAS, Judge
concurring.
I am pleased to fully concur in Judge Vaidik's well-reasoned opinion.
I write only to express my concern that every day, there is much "confidential financial information" contained within doe-uments routinely filed and submitted in evidence in judicial proceedings (dissolution and otherwise) throughout Indiana, without any claim of privacy under IC 5-14-3. Until now, attorneys and their clients have correctly assumed that civil society would accord them the privacy customarily due such proceedings. It troubles me to add yet another pleading, a motion to seal, to the time and expense of obtaining a very common legal resolution, a dissolution of one's marriage, in Indiana. I am most displeased with this result and its effect upon parties, their attorneys, and courts, but I see no alternative.