CASE MANAGEMENT CONFERENCES IN TAMPA, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY DIVORCES

In a typical Tampa, Hillsborough County Divorce, when a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage is filed with the Court, the Court automatically orders a Case Management Conference to be set at some date in the future. Typically, this is about three months after the filing of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage. At that time, the parties must appear before the Judge assigned to the case who will question them on the status of the case. Required to attend the Case Management Conference are both parties and their respective attorneys, if they have them.

Going before a Judge can be understandably stressful for a person getting divorced, especially if the Judge is going to be questioning them. However, the purpose of the Case Management Conference is to move the case along by having the Judge make sure that what is needed to get done gets done. In the typical case, that would be the completion of discovery and the scheduling of mediation. Both of which are necessary to move the case towards trial. In any event, at the Case Management Conference each party merely needs to be ready to tell the Judge what the status of their case is and how it is progressing.