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Perspective

Oct. 14, 2014

How to manage evidentiary hearings in family court

When people ask me how often I'm in trial as a family law judge, I answer "all the time." At least that's how often I preside over evidentiary hearings, which take up the bulk of each court day. By Nathan Scott


By Nathan Scott


When people ask me how often I'm in trial as a newer family law judge, I answer "all the time." But that really answers a slightly different question. That's how often I preside over evidentiary hearings. That does happen all the time. Evidentiary hearings take up the bulk of each court day.


Family law puts evidentiary hearings first. Unlike other civil cases, no case management conference is automatically calendared wh...

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