In dissolution, if one party wants to postpone the court date final hearing, should both parties be contacted first to approve?
Question Details: I will not receive child support until the final hearing, which was scheduled for the 17th. My soon-to-be ex told me it was postponed until the 31st because he thought I was going to be out of town. That is not true and if someone would have contacted me, I would have told them that. I work in a school and I go back to work on the 20th. So now I have to take off work to attend the final hearing and of course the child support is gone for at least those 2 weeks. It seems common sense that this would happen alot, the more it postpones, the less he has to pay.
It seems odd that he was able to postpone the hearing without the court contacting you, but there isn't anything you can do about it now except make sure it doesn't happen again. I would contact the judge's judicial assistant and let them know you were not out of town and you want contacted before any additional postponements occur.
