Your attorney, or you, if you are acting as your attorney, may ask the judge who is hearing your case to appoint a Guardian Ad Litem. After looking at the issues involved in a case, a judge may appoint a Guardian Ad Litem to investigate the child's current situation.
One important thing to note about GALs is that though a court appoints one, the parent(s), hopeful parent(s), or agency typically pays the Guardian ad litem fees.
No food or drinks of any kind inside the courtroom. No loud talking while the court is in session unless you are speaking to the judge. All headwear, including caps, hats, beanies, and bandanas are prohibited in the courtroom.
Rule 306a. Date of Judgment or Order (1981) Judges, attorneys and clerks are directed to use their best efforts to cause all judgments, decisions, and orders of any kind to be reduced to writing and signed by the trial judge with the date of signing stated therein.
The Bexar County Standing Orders are Special Orders that apply to both parties once a divorce is filed. These Standing Orders automatically go into place at the time a divorce action is filed. The Standing Orders also include provisions for children, for the child custody part of a divorce.
In logic, contingency is the feature of a statement making it neither necessary nor impossible. Contingency is a fundamental concept of modal logic. Modal logic concerns the manner, or mode, in which statements are true. Contingency is one of three basic modes alongside necessity and possibility.
The contingency rules theory assumes that: (I) compliance-gaining and com- pliance-resisting activities are governed antecedently by jive varieties of sev- evaluative and adaptive contingency rules; (2) the actual contexts where social influence agents interact determine the configuration of rules governing their ...
Contingent means that an event may or may not occur in the future, depending on the fulfillment of some condition that is uncertain. This term is often used in contracts where the event will not take effect until the specified condition occurs.