Family court process
Filing, fee waivers, service, respond, get temporary orders, default, finalize, manage paperwork, get ready for a hearing or trial, depositions and subpoenas (discovery), appeal or vacate a court order, enforce through contempt
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Respond
Temporary orders
Finalize
After a hearing
Paperwork
Other
- Ask for a disability accommodation: The basics
- Ask for an interpreter
- Ask written questions and request documents in discovery
- Contempt guide
- Dismiss a family law case
- Prove your protection order or family law case
- Reschedule (continue) your court hearing
- Schedule a court hearing
- Seal or redact a court record
- Subpoena witnesses and documents