SELF REPRESENTATION??

[TheParks]

My husband is battling over visitation in Iowa while the ex is wanting him to sign off his rights in the Florida Law System. He has told them no and written a letter saying no..but they are saying that he has to go down there for an actual court case. We have spent all our money setting up the case here to make the ex agree with the visitations in the decree...
Does anyone know if he can petition to an over the phone hearing...or can he represent himself down there? Any advice would be greatly beneficial...
Thank You
The Parks

[wendl]

Post to SOC and see what he says.


**These are my opinions, they are not legal advice**

[MixedBag]

You can do a motion to appear by phone to the FL court system and REQUEST this.  Each states' rules of engagement in the court proceedings are different, so I can't say if this needs to be done, heard, and decided 10 days before court, 30, or whatever.

Since there are two "open" proceedings going on (one in FL, and one in Iowa), you've got a more complicated problem that I personally don't recommend doing or tackling without an attorney -- even though I'm pro se myself.

That's probably the first issue that needs to be resolved in both courtrooms.

THEN the rest of the stuff or issues can be addressed.