SLR 4-8.009: MANNER OF PROCEEDINGS

(1) Appearances All parties, attorneys, and witnesses are required to appear in person for proceedings unless they have a signed order allowing remote appearance, or Trial Assignment, which is always remote. Any participant who wishes to appear remotely shall file a Motion and Declaration requesting remote appearance and give notice to the other party. Motions should be directed to the ex parte Family Law Judge or retained judge at least 10 days in advance of the proceeding. Other hearings may be held remotely at the judicial officer’s discretion. (2) Trial memoranda shall be submitted to the assigned trial department by noon of either the day of Trial Assignment, or the judicial day prior to the scheduled proceeding. Parties shall check with the retained/assigned judicial officer’s staff on how to submit exhibits. (3) In addition to electronic filing, requests and objections to attorney fees must be emailed or otherwise provided to the assigned (or retained) judge and be copied to the opposing party. 8.011 SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION UCCJEA PROCEEDINGS (1) Subject Matter Jurisdiction The following cases shall be subject to the rules of this chapter: dissolution and annulment of marriages and registered domestic partnerships, dissolutions of other domestic partnerships, separation, child and spousal support, filiations, proceedings for protection orders, child custody and parenting time matters, adoptions, identity changes, habeas corpus proceedings involving children, civil commitments, and such other cases as shall be assigned to the Chief Family Law Judge for case management purposes by the Presiding Judge. (2) UCCJEA Proceedings A pleading or motion asserting that the court lacks or should decline jurisdiction under the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act must include in the caption of that document the phrase “UCCJEA Issue.” In addition, that document must set out: (1) the state or tribe that arguably has or should assert jurisdiction, (2) contact information for the appropriate court in the other state(s) or tribe(s), and (3) notice of any prior or concurrent proceedings and orders regarding the matter before the court. Upon determining that a case will require a UCCJEA conference, a party shall file a motion accompanied by a proposed Order to Show Cause that contains a scheduled date on the Trial Assignment docket. The motion will be assigned to a judge from Trial Assignment. The assigned judge’s staff will coordinate with the court where the UCCJEA issues are present to set the UCCJEA conference. The assigned judge shall become the retained judge, and all future matters shall be scheduled directly by the parties with the retained judge. Other state courts’ jurisdictions (judges and staff only) needing to arrange a UCCJEA conference should call the Family Law Clerk’s office public line, and staff will collect contact information and set on the Trial Assignment docket.