Legal Question in Family Law in New York

Re: Order to show cause

The answer to your question is YES, but if you try to draft it yourself, you will most likely turn the Judge off by your "inartfulness."

Translation: if you are not a contractor, do not be surprised if the house you build for yourself falls down on your head.

You have posted here before (about the lawyer who "skipped town", etc.). I told you then that you need a new lawyer and that there were ways you could get your retainer back.

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Re: Order to show cause

An Order to Show Cause is, in essence, like Express Mail or like admittance to an express lane.

As a general proposition, anything that can/may be brought to the attention of a court by way of a motion or an application for relief / intervention may be brought to the court's attention by use of an Order to Show Cause.

A motion may, typically, be "returnable" {scheduled to be heard} in 20 days ... an order to show cause is usually scheduled to be heard in a much shorter time.

Regards, etc.,

J.M. Hayes

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