Sentences with phrase «contested hearings»

I will not be providing the following services (this is not an exhaustive list): drafting or revising documents, requesting or preparing financial and other discovery and disclosure, providing advice as to the «fairness» of agreements, discussing possible or likely results if you were to ask a judge to decide your dispute, providing other legal advice, or appearing at contested hearings or rehearings.

Over the years I have handled many contested hearings and trials, including custody, support, and property division, and have seen the toll litigation takes on couples going through it.

These administrative contested hearings are similar to court hearings, but more informal.

The attorneys are then barred from filing any contested legal pleadings or appearing in any contested hearings on behalf of the clients.

If you can not resolve matters through mediation, you will have to attend one or more contested hearings in court.

This means that no time, energy, or money is going towards setting contested hearings, preparing for court battle, or attending nasty courtroom bloodfests.

Professional Experience Paralegal Intern 6/1/2015 — 8/1/2015 Office of the Arizona Attorney General — Phoenix, AZ Assessed and prepared care files for court hearing, assisted with trial preparation and document management, and obtained records and evidence for contested hearings and trials.

The Pittsburgh child support lawyers at Pollock Begg Komar Glasser & Vertz LLC are prepared to meet these challenges in contested hearings as well as settlement negotiations to determine the proper amount of child support.

Whether through careful negotiation or conducting contested hearings, we offer the highest quality advice, meticulous preparation and excellent advocacy.

We have also successfully represented numerous applicants for admission to the Illinois Bar at every stage of review before the Illinois Board of Admission to the Bar's Committee on Character and Fitness, including contested hearings before a five - person panel.

She also handled countless contested hearings involving constitutional, statutory, evidentiary and sentencing issues.

The attorneys are then barred from filing any contested legal pleadings or appearing in any contested hearings on behalf of the clients.

«They don't want contested hearings.

3 years, 10 attorneys for executrix, 2 mediations, numerous contested hearings, mandamus and Appeal to 14th Court of Appeals successfully defending client's bequest from hostile adverse claimant

While adding another step in the process may in some cases increase costs, if used effectively, these conferences may result in fewer requests for adjournment, more efficient contested hearings and more effective advocacy on the part of the self - representing litigant.

The contested hearings began later that year.

Nicholas Crichton, district judge at the Inner London Family Proceedings Court, who deals with about 1,500 contact cases a year, estimates that about 75 per cent of such cases could avoid contested hearings under the new system.

The Ontario Securities Commission, for example, has collected 3.1 % of the fines levied after contested hearings held between 2005 and June 2012 (the OSC seeks retribution through stocks and property, but has not yet garnisheed wages).

If the parents can not agree on visitation or custody arrangements, either one may ask the court to grant his or her request through a contested hearing.

Nakamura said the board should have held a contested hearing case on the sublease, which is the same type of case delaying the project's conservation permit.

And finally, it creates a «safe space» for the self - representing litigant to inform themselves on process and ask questions about what is expected of them in a contested hearing.

The notice sets out that contested motions and applications involving at least one self - representing litigant must be set for a case management conference before a contested hearing takes place.

In addition to ensuring that the matter is ready to proceed to a contested hearing, the case management judge is specifically tasked ``... to explain the process and to otherwise advise the self - represented litigant what may be expected.»

Assessing the costs in accordance with Pt IIIA, the recorder awarded the first two elements of the fixed costs, but refused to award the fixed trial advocacy fee because the case had settled before the final contested hearing had commenced.

If a contested hearing is held the result will be either:

The applicant had secured a disclosure order after a contested hearing for which the respondent had relied on extensive witness statements which, according to the judge below, «looked impressive and intimidating».

Following a contested hearing on consequential matters, E was also awarded 100 % of her costs, and successfully opposed the local authority's application for permission to appeal.

C.J., Brampton, Fletcher J.P.) involving a contested hearing where the Crown Prosecutor and Defence presented opposing views to the court, the court sentenced two company directors to 25 days in jail each.

The following principles and guidelines should be adhered to when applying the bail provisions in a contested hearing:

Kiani v Cooper Ref: [2010] 2 BCLC 427 Acted for successful applicant in the first reported case of the Court granting permission, following a contested hearing, for a shareholder to continue a derivative claim under the Companies Act 2006.

Assessing the costs in accordance with part IIIA, the recorder awarded the first two elements of the fixed costs, but refused to award the fixed trial advocacy fee because the case had settled before the final contested hearing had commenced.

The firm advised Scoozi Bar & Grill on multiple premises licensing applications for outside table areas, including representing the client in a contested hearing before the local licensing committee.

It helped win a contested hearing and avoid a costly appeal.

After a contested hearing the court found the Mother had done all she could to promote contact, that the children were genuinely concerned about their Father's behaviour and orders him to attend a parenting course as recommended by Social Services and, should the children want it, contact supervised in a contact centre

For cases that are not resolved at mediation, students take the lead on a final contested hearing.

In Wright, the original maintenance order was made in 2008 following a fully contested hearing; at the time Mr W was 52 and Mrs W was 44.

Litigants and counsel pay very close attention to a judge's words and actions during the course of a contested hearing.

Such people are often not eligible for public funding but need the help of an experienced barrister to represent them at a contested hearing when allegations of a serious nature are made against them and otherwise they would have to represent themselves.

In 2015, Stephanie obtained a recommendation of a dismissal of the charges by the ARDC Hearing Board following a contested hearing in relation to allegations that her client converted escrow funds.

Their written reasons stated that my office had not requested the disclosure until 10 days after the commencement of the proceedings and that there would be an opportunity for adjournments throughout the contested hearing — and disclosure could be made on points of detail as they emerged in the proceedings.

Margaret Hatwood, an associate at Thomas Eggar LLP, says she is delighted that the appeal court has reinstated the long - held understanding among family lawyers that a decision made after a fully contested hearing could not be overturned by the trustee in bankruptcy.

So a wife who has received her divorce settlement following a contested hearing in the last five years could be vulnerable to attack.

The first two options are guilty pleas, while the third option, request a contested hearing, is another name for not guilty.

Drivers may choose to either fight traffic citations by requesting a contested hearing, or reduce the WA driving fine by scheduling a mitigated hearing.

In addition to required mediation, there shall be other incentives to mediate such as priority on the court docket for a contested hearing if parties do not resolve all issues in mediation and require a court hearing or award of attorney fees for parties that attend mediation at an early stage and against parties that unreasonably resist or delay mediation.

If parents can not reach an agreement to modify custody on their own or through mediation, the Wisconsin circuit court typically schedules a contested hearing in court for the case.

The level of evidence required to meet the state's negotiation threshold differs from state to state and is not generally required to reach that presented in a contested hearing.

Every time your lawyer has to prepare for a contested hearing, you pay him / her hundreds (or thousands) of dollars.

First, as itself a party to the litigation, the State is in a position to decide whether it will consent to a native title determination being made by a court or whether it will require the native title parties to prove their case through a contested hearing.

As a party to litigation, the Commonwealth is in a position to decide whether it will consent to a native title determination being made by a court or whether it will require the native title parties to prove their case through a contested hearing.