Legal Question in Family Law in Florida
If there is no timeframe put on a judges request for a proposed order/final judgement in a guardianship proceeding, how long can the defendant's lawyer take to file their proposed order/final judgement?
The defendant's lawyer in my case has been notorious so far at dragging out every request made on him. My lawyer filed our proposed order/final judgement over a week ago, and still we have not received his copy, and it has not been filed.
1 Answer from Attorneys
I assume that the judge asked for proposed orders from both sides, and the judge said he or she would sign the one that he or she liked better. If I were the lawyer, I think I would send a letter to the judge saying that, since the other lawyer has not submitted a proposed order, that mine be signed if the other lawyer did not send in an order within five days.
Some counties (like mine) have local rules that mandate that attorneys file proposed orders within five days. Maybe your county has that rule, too.
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