Legal Question in Family Law in California

I can't tell you what a bad judge might do in a particular case. Sometimes a bad judge and a bad argument have a meeting of the minds. With that said, however, he should be held in contempt. The purpose of initialling pages is to make sure there isn't any dispute over the content of the document at the time it was signed. If you initial pages there can't be any meaningful claims that the page was not included or was altered after the signature page was signed. Furthermore, once the judge signs something and makes it an order of the court, whatever was there is part of the order, whether the parties signed, initialed, or not. If he contended that he did not agree to page 3 or that it was not binding on him when he signed page 1, the time to make those arguments was before the agreement was turned into an order. Once there is an order, the agreement is irrelevant. What is in the order is the order, no matter what the parties agreed to before the order was entered. So point out to the public defender that the order includes page three, and parties don't have to sign or initial orders. Once the judge signs it, its an order of the court and disobediance is contempt. If he won't listen and cop a plea, then remind the judge of the same thing. I can't promise results, but most judges don't like people who pretend they an pick and choose what parts of their orders get followed by playing technicality games.