Hi everyone
I'm hoping someone can give us an urgent answer. It seems trivial but we take nothing for granted with the court process. My partner was officially served on Monday and the first court date was Tuesday (the next day). The reason I say officially is because the Applicant mother emailed the documents to him (my partner) and parts were missing, no acknowledgement of service etc. she did this twice before he went in and got served by the family court directly. He went in on Tuesday and requested an adjournment, which was granted.
Now with that back story in mind, we have read the order created on this date and among other things, it states "each party needs to provide the legal aid commission with any application, affidavits and reports relied upon within 7 days". It goes onto say I have 28 days to file my response. The ex has legal aid by the way, I have a private lawyer.
How can we be expected to obtain all police reports, affidavits, docs reports etc in 7 days? We are not meeting with our lawyer again until next week and he didn't mention this and we are very worried that if we don't do this, we won't be given the opportunity to proceed or it will come up against us at the hearing? Can anyone give more insight into this condition? How can we ask for more time if any? Any ideas on what will happen?
Of course the ex prepared all her items before filing her case. Some reports take 3 or more weeks to obtain and several affidavits need to be filed from a few people. We all work so it's impossible to oblige to this request made by the registrar? Any advice is appreciated..
I'm hoping someone can give us an urgent answer. It seems trivial but we take nothing for granted with the court process. My partner was officially served on Monday and the first court date was Tuesday (the next day). The reason I say officially is because the Applicant mother emailed the documents to him (my partner) and parts were missing, no acknowledgement of service etc. she did this twice before he went in and got served by the family court directly. He went in on Tuesday and requested an adjournment, which was granted.
Now with that back story in mind, we have read the order created on this date and among other things, it states "each party needs to provide the legal aid commission with any application, affidavits and reports relied upon within 7 days". It goes onto say I have 28 days to file my response. The ex has legal aid by the way, I have a private lawyer.
How can we be expected to obtain all police reports, affidavits, docs reports etc in 7 days? We are not meeting with our lawyer again until next week and he didn't mention this and we are very worried that if we don't do this, we won't be given the opportunity to proceed or it will come up against us at the hearing? Can anyone give more insight into this condition? How can we ask for more time if any? Any ideas on what will happen?
Of course the ex prepared all her items before filing her case. Some reports take 3 or more weeks to obtain and several affidavits need to be filed from a few people. We all work so it's impossible to oblige to this request made by the registrar? Any advice is appreciated..
