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What to expect on the day of your family court trial: divorce, parenting orders settlement or property settlement
Season 2
Episode 49
Published 4 years, 7 months ago
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Are you about to go to trial or worried what your trial would be like in your family court. We will break it down in a really easy to understand way so you know what you will be facing and you won't have any surprises. Break up the fear of the unknown and be prepared for your day in family court for your divorce, children's or property settlement.
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You Don't Want to Miss Out On
- How knowing what goes on in a trial will help you face your fear.
- How keeping a mindfulness approach to your trial day can really keep you focused and achieve better outcomes for you on the day.
- The theatre of a trial and what to expect
- Who will be in the trial room with you.
- What the trial room will look like.
- What to expect from the judge
- How to speak to a judge
- What a judges associate is and what to expect from them on the day of the trial
- How to know where to stand when you go into court
- The layout of the courtroom
- What is a bar table and why is it called one?
- When do witnesses come into the trial
- Where do witnesses wait during the trial proceedings
- Can you take a support person with you?
- How does the judge enter?
- How does the trial start
- What kind of housekeeping does the judge do at the beginning
- What is the point of the witness box
- What do you have to do in the witness box
- What kind of questions do they ask in the witness box
- How can you prepare for a trial
- What does the affidavit have to do with the trial
- Why it's important to refresh your memory
- Why it's important to eat breakfast the day of court
- Top strategy for the witness box
- What is going on in the head of the barrister or the lawyer
- How long can you be in the witness box
- How to ask to go to the bathroom if you're in the witness box
- What should you do when a judge asks you a direct question
- How should you address the judge during your family court trial
- What are closing submissions
- What's the difference between written and spoken submissions
- What do you find out the outc