Michaely

Joshua Michaely (Husband) appeals from the judgment entered in the dissolution proceeding filed by his former wife, Patti Michaely (Wife). We affirm.

Factual and Procedural Summary

This dissolution case has an extraordinarily long history. The petition was filed on January 5, 1995, after the parties had been married for 24 years. The judgment of dissolution was in August of 1998, but the judgment that is the subject of this appeal, the further judgment on reserved issues, was not entered until August of 2005. The reserved issues were financial issues, and the issues on appeal concern sanctions, in the form of factual findings, which were imposed on Husband as the result of his conduct during discovery, in particular his conduct at a 1999 deposition.

These are the relevant facts:

Wife first took Husband’s deposition in March of 1995. In May of 1996, she noticed another deposition. Husband objected, but the court (the case was then assigned to Judge Denner), found that Wife had “demonstrated good cause for the suspension of Code of Civil Procedure section 2025(t), the ‘one deposition rule,’ . . . in that the issues and facts involved ... are complicated,” and because…