Del Norte Superior Court Pre-Motion Conference Requirements

CRITICAL

(b) Meet and Confer Requirement: The Court may decline to hear any family law matter unless and until self-represented parties and counsel, with their respective clients either physically present or immediately physically available, have met and conferred in good faith in an effort to resolve all or part of their issues. At the meeting, all parties must exchange documents that may be relevant to contested issues or that may be offered into evidence at the outset of the hearing on the matter and attempt to reach agreement on the admissibility of documents being offered. Each self-represented party or counsel must represent to the Court that there has been compliance with this rule. Non- compliance with this rule may result in (i) the matter being dropped from the calendar or continued, (ii) the rejection of non-exchanged documents into evidence, or (iii) other sanctions as deemed appropriate by the Court.

(b) Meet and Confer Requirement: The Court may decline to hear any family law matter unless and until self-represented parties and counsel, with their respective clients either physically present or immediately physically available, have met and conferred in good faith in an effort to resolve all or part of their issues. At the meeting, all parties must exchange documents that may be relevant to contested issues or that may be offered into evidence at the outset of the hearing on the matter and attempt to reach agreement on the admissibility of documents being offered. Each self-represented party or counsel must represent to the Court that there has been compliance with this rule. Non- compliance with this rule may result in (i) the matter being dropped from the calendar or continued, (ii) the rejection of non-exchanged documents into evidence, or (iii) other sanctions as deemed appropriate by the Court.

INFO

A court responsible for custody or visitation orders may calendar a hearing before the Criminal Court to consider modifying a potentially conflicting criminal order.

Any Court responsible for issuing custody or visitation orders that becomes aware of a possible conflicting Criminal Court order may, on its own motion or at the request of a defendant, protected person, or other interested party, calendar a hearing before the Criminal Court on the issue of whether the criminal order should be modified.