Entries Categorized as 'Procedures/Rules'

The FOC’s self-help site

Date June 17, 2004

a website devoted to parenting time

Military money

Date May 27, 2004

assisting members of the military with child support issues

Mini-judges

Date May 25, 2004

the debate surrounding court-appointed forensic evaluators in custody battles

Catch-all hearsay exception

Date April 30, 2004

the admission of hearsay under the catch-all exception, MRE 803(24)

No contest

Date March 20, 2004

the relationship of MRE 609 (use of convictions to impeach) and MRE 410 (inadmissibility of no contest pleas)

Challenging the science of psychology

Date March 15, 2004

challenging the validity of widely used diagnostic tools

Faking photos

Date March 13, 2004

seeing may not be believing

Opinion testimony by experts

Date March 11, 2004

quick refresher on the United States Supreme Court’s expert witness trilogy

A serious lifetime commitment

Date March 9, 2004

city’s district court decision to require premarital counseling as a condition for marriage by a judge

Gatekeeping

Date March 6, 2004

Do not make the mistake of thinking that Daubert applies only to limited categories of expert witnesses

What’s left is a cleanup

Date February 27, 2004

the state’s continuing errors in processing child support

Closings

Date February 18, 2004

objectives and content, delivery and structure

ABA standards on electronic discovery

Date February 9, 2004

allocating the cost of electronic discovery, altering or destroying evidence, and handling privileged information

Frye-ing Daubert

Date January 27, 2004

These reasons are similar to reasons most frequently cited by judges in 1991, and they do not reflect the factors cited in Daubert

Changes to MRE

Date January 13, 2004

changes to the Michigan Rules of Evidence

Changes to MCR

Date January 12, 2004

changes to the Michigan Court Rules

Changes to the child support formula

Date January 10, 2004

revisions to the Michigan Child Support Formula

The number of blue moons in a county

Date January 7, 2004

New rules from Michigan’s Supreme Court requiring attorneys to visit with juveniles they represent in adoption and child protective cases are being accepted as already-routine practice in Kent County.

Kent County’s policy on Social Security numbers

Date January 7, 2004

text of Judge Sullivan’s order

The 25 cent question

Date January 5, 2004

state will increase a monthly child support processing fee by 25 cents