Vulgarity Gets Lawyer in Trouble A recent incident in San Diego County Superior Court is a reminder of an older California Court of Appeal case, People v. Chong, wherein the Court stated, “it is vital to the integrity of our adversary legal process that attorneys strive to maintain the highest standards of ethics, civility, and…
Change in Leadership in San Diego County Superior Court Family Law Division An email from earlier this Saturday quotes San Diego County Superior Court family law supervising judge Margo Lewis Hoy as saying that both she and assistant family law supervising judge Edlene McKenzie are retiring in less than two and a half months. Per…
San Diego Divorce Court to Reopen Tuesday the 26th The San Diego County Superior Court (Family Law Division) has basically been closed since the middle of March, with the exception for the submission of paperwork to get an emergency temporary restraining order based on domestic violence or to get an emergency order regarding custody/visitation (and…
How Are Divorce and Family Law Cases Being Affected by the Covid-19 Crisis? This is such a broad question that it’s difficult to answer. Let’s start with child custody and visitation. The Court, in San Diego County, is not scheduled to accept filings for motions or new cases until either Friday, May 1 or Monday,…
California Courts are Closed Only the most knowledgeable about history, or the ones with the greatest memories, can say what happened more than, say, half a century ago, like when Pearl Harbor was attacked or President Kennedy was assassinated. But within an hour or so after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, the San Diego…
Family Law Courts Affected by Emergency In California, family law means court cases about divorce, including child custody, child support, spousal support, property division and domestic violence. It also means other cases involving those issues like paternity cases, which are cases between people who had at least one child between them but were never married.…
Just last month in this blog we addressed the situation of a murder-suicide in Oceanside whose cause was being attributed to distraught feelings in a pending divorce (see Apparent Oceanside Murder-Suicide Linked to Pending Divorce, March 5, 2014). Those deaths occurred in February earlier this year. Coincidentally, a prosecution currently underway in San Diego Superior…
