How To Handle Emergency Property Or Custody Issues

How do I handle emergency property or custody issues?

In family law court, there's very little that's handled immediately. If you have custody issues, and there's some urgency to them or it's an extremely urgent situation, we have a process called ex parte. And what that means is you give telephonic notice to the other side that you are going to go to court tomorrow, and you're seeking emergency orders. And those orders are pretty hard to get, so it's got to be a dire emergency, whether it's children or property. Normally, financial issues are not deemed dire emergencies. And sometimes, you walk out of an ex parte hearing getting your request denied, but you get an order shortening time, so instead of waiting six weeks for a hearing, you wait two weeks for a hearing.