Friday, February 8, 2013

Friday, February 8, 2013


The judges that will be interviewed on Tuesday, February 12 are: Judges Cohen, Crucitti, Manley and Tomasi. The others and Magistrate Zander will meet with the committee on Wednesday, February 20th. aAso, due to today’s weather the confirmation hearing for Judge Griffin was cancelled and will take place next week. The schedule for next week is in flux right now and will not be available until Monday perhaps.

I just returned from a House Judiciary Committee hearing where Court Administrator Bob Greemore presented some requests from the judicial branch to the committee. Family division practitioners should be aware that one of the changes being presented would give the court the authority to revisit the reduced filing fee paid along with a stipulation. Apparently there is some track record that, after parties file with a stipulation and pay the reduced fee, the stip falls apart and the matter becomes contested. In those cases, with the proposed changes, the court can impose the difference in fees prior to the issuance of a final order.

The rest of the day will be pretty quiet as many afternoon committee meetings have been canceled and most legislators from the southern counties are gone; many in fact left last night. Have a nice weekend; thanks for reading.

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