When people talk to me about court postponements, I always think about that expression about cops.
It goes something like "when you want one you can't get one, but when you don't want one you can get rid of them."
No disrespect to cops because I find that pens are the equivalent in my life and I curse them whenever I a scrambling to write something down but can't find anything to write with. Postponements are like that.
The likelihood that you will get a postponement often seems to be inversely proportional to how much you want one. That is really no joke, because many Frederick lawyers will act accordingly and feign not wanting a postponement in the hopes they will therefore get one.
All kidding aside, many things can cause your case to be postponed and lately most have nothing to do with you, or your lawyer.
Of late the Frederick County Family Court has experienced at least five snow days, two holidays and and a bomb scare in about 7 weeks.
Apart from raining frogs, that is as much as this court has ever seen. As such, this means about 20% of the January and February case were just outright cancelled. That means the court docket will be at 120% of capacity until that stabilizes.The court has internal deadlines called “differentiated case management.” Those deadlines mean that of the 120% of the cases scheduled to be completed many NEED to be completed. Yet those standards do not apply to custody visitation or child support modifications.
Therefore, when presented with 2 cases set for the same day and one has an approaching deadline of completion per Annapolis, the one that does not have a deadline is gonna get bumped. Simple.
The result is that child custody, visitation and child support modifications in Frederick are going to be running on a good chance of at least one postponement. This condition will continue into the early summer by my guess, but should abate as the year rolls on.
Tim Conlon, Esquire for The Custody Place
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