Legal Question in Family Law in California

The moving party gets two whacks at the apple. The moving party gets to make their initial arguments first in the motion. The opposition gets a chance to raise their arguments in the opposition. The original moving party then gets a reply, which is a reply to the opposition, and not a chance to raise additional arguments that were not raised in the original moving papers.

There is no such thing as a "surreply" or any other misspelled manner of an argument after the reply. People use these as a result of what I call the monkey see monkey do aspect of family law, but most judges are on top of the rules and reject them out of hand without reading them.