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When you have a new party as Plaintiff, assuming she was Defendant prior, the orders always start out as temporary because these are signed ex parte. A hearing is required to make the order permanent. What she would do is to present her motion to a district court (criminal) judge singularly and convince him that her rights have been violated enough as parent to warrant the action. When the temporary orders are in place, these supercede all previous orders without nullifying until the permanent orders are in place or the expiration of the temporary orders with whichever comes first.
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Currently the court hearing the case is a county superior court, would she go to a different court to file her new motion, or would she file with the same court? Also so I understand, she can't just write a motion, order and submitt it to the court she has to have a hearing to be heard first? How easy/hard would it be to convince the judge her rights have been violated?
My concern is that if she goes and files a new temporary plan that the judge won't hear it right away and therefore the other party will be notified and the lawyer will come in and take over. As she is not fully versed in the law, and neither am I, I am not sure how well she would be able to counter any argument made by the other lawyer. She is currently trying to get a hold of the recorder to see if the temporary order has expired or if it has been renewed. She has been getting the run around from them any suggestions as to what to say? Also in getting this information will either lawyer hers or other be notified, that someone inquired about the status?