C/S Hearing Question

[Eeyore]

We had a telephone child support hearing in April 2004, in Clackamas County, Oregon.

Received a judgement from the Admin Law Judge increasing child support by $306, based on income, medical, daycare, counseling and private school for child, plus the fact that the NCP's two children from his first marriage were of legal age and therefore off his c/s.  

Child is language dyslexic, has Light Sensitivity Syndrome and the XYY syndrome.  

The child's current private school wrote a statement stating that they did not have to ability to teach to his learning disabilities and that XXXX school, where the child had been already accepted, would be able to teach him, as they are a state certified, licensed special school for language dyslexics.

The Order went through Circuit Court, a CC judge signed it, stating that the order followed the c/s guidelines.  

NCP appealed the order to the Circuit Court and CP received a notice to appear in Circuit Court in September 2004 in Clackamas County, OR.  The notice stated the following:

Scheduled Proceeding:  HEARING
Date:
Time:
Room:  Private attorney show cause hrgs
Addt'l Info:  Admin Appeal

FAILURE TO APPEAR AT THE COURT EVENT MAY RESULT IN AN ORDER BEING RENDERED AGAINST YOU IN THIS CASE.

Q: As I live in Seattle WA and work full-time, this would be an economic and employment burden upon me.  Is there any way to get that to be a telephone hearing?  Is it a completely NEW hearing, or is the judge going to read the stuff from the previous telephone child support hearing by the admin law judge?

[socrateaser]

>Q: As I live in Seattle WA and work full-time, this would be
>an economic and employment burden upon me.  Is there any way
>to get that to be a telephone hearing?  Is it a completely NEW
>hearing, or is the judge going to read the stuff from the
>previous telephone child support hearing by the admin law
>judge?

Call the courthouse, get the family law clerk on the phone and ask if this particular judge will permit telephone hearings. You may be directed to the judge's clerk, if so, talk to him/her and see if you can arrange to appear by telephone. It's all up to the judge. If you get an verbal ok, then send a letter to the judge's clerk confirming the conversation and the details and copy the other party or attorney.

Consider yourself lucky, 200 miles from Seattle to Clackamas -- some people are forced to fly cross country.