Court Procedure for Dummies
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You can read Rules of Civil Procedure, but here are tactical points.
- Is judge supposed to know the law? Yes, but they can't know everything. Personal experience: when a tree straddles a boundary line, judge in our case was not aware that any tree on a boundary line cannot be removed without permission of both owners. Both sides own the tree in common. This is common knowledge in tree cases, but our judge asked not verbatim regarding our request to not remove trees 'What if a tree sits on both sides of the line'? I assumed that he was not familiar with the law because the answer is clear.
Terms and Procedures
- Ex parte - from one side only. Communicating directly with judge without other party - [1]