Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Wisconsin

Re: Wage confidentiality

It depends.

Since her husband is the company owner, she has the right to force disclosure of all business records, because she has a financial interest in those records. Your salary information would be part of that disclosure. I.if she has narrowed the request to your records, fighting the disclosure may simply cause her to ask for ALL of the records, and get the information that way.

She certainly has the right to review business records of a company owned by her husband, as a matter of accounting between the two. If she can make a reasonable argument that fault was involved AND that you had something to do with it, she's very likely to get them.

She may be trying to make a case that funds have been siphoned off to you, or that you received a much higher salary thatn your position warranted, as evidence of an extra-marital relationship.

In either case, you have the right to privacy, and can petition the judge to force the wife to make a showing of how your employment records are relevant to any issues within the context of the divorce. You may need to hire a lawyer to protect you if she alleges any sort of fraud on the company.