Public Viewing

[Mandolin Wind]

I'm in California. I was curious about cases that are in the court clerk's office....

Are cases available for anyone to look at?

And, If I wanted to make a copy from one of those cases could I?

My ex has four children by three different men. 1 older child, our child, and two younger ones. My ex says she has custody of the older child. The father of the older child has had custody of his child since that child was 3 years old. The Father (of the older child) and my ex have agreed to the child living with her just so she can get custody of our child.

I have had custody for over three years of our child, does this have any bearing in court? If my child is a half-relative of the other siblings (by my ex), and I don't have any other children, will the courts take the child away from me?

Sorry if this is confusing.

 

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

I'm in California. I was curious about cases that are in the court clerk's office....

Are cases available for anyone to look at?

And, If I wanted to make a copy from one of those cases could I?

My ex has four children by three different men. 1 older child, our child, and two younger ones. My ex says she has custody of the older child. The father of the older child has had custody of his child since that child was 3 years old. The Father (of the older child) and my ex have agreed to the child living with her just so she can get custody of our child.

I have had custody for over three years of our child, does this have any bearing in court? If my child is a half-relative of the other siblings (by my ex), and I don't have any other children, will the courts take the child away from me?

Sorry if this is confusing.

My response:

As to your first two questions, yes, absolutely. Your rights to view and make copies of any file you want, is governed by the California Government Code.

As to the rest of your post, yes, it is too confusing, or I'm just too tired for "SAT" type questions right now. Maybe tomorrow when I get the cobwebs out of my head.

IAAL

 

[LegalBeagle]

I'm in California. I was curious about cases that are in the court clerk's office....

Are cases available for anyone to look at?

And, If I wanted to make a copy from one of those cases could I?

My ex has four children by three different men. 1 older child, our child, and two younger ones. My ex says she has custody of the older child. The father of the older child has had custody of his child since that child was 3 years old. The Father (of the older child) and my ex have agreed to the child living with her just so she can get custody of our child.

I have had custody for over three years of our child, does this have any bearing in court? If my child is a half-relative of the other siblings (by my ex), and I don't have any other children, will the courts take the child away from me?

Sorry if this is confusing.

First, she would need a substantial change of circumstances for her petition to have any weight. She can not just file for custody for the sake of it. Then, she would need to prove that a change of custody is in the best interests of the child. With the limited details given above, suddenly having the older child live with her is not going to be enough to get a judge to even think about a change in custody.

 

[Mandolin Wind]

Thank you ....

 

[Ukiah]

You have the right to look at and make copies of everything in your files, if they tell you otherwise, they are lying...

You may want to ask what their policies are about making copies, some places state it is their policy that you need to be bonded, if that is the case, then speak with the person in charge..

 

[Mandolin Wind]

Lies?

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[Edited by Mandolin WInd on 01-21-2001 at 05:26 PM]

 

[Mandolin Wind]

My response:

As to your first two questions, yes, absolutely. Your rights to view and make copies of any file you want, is governed by the California Government Code.


IAAL

I went to the courthouse and they told me that since I wasn't an attorney, or legal assistant, I couldn't make copies of anything in my case. But the weird thing was that she made copies for me (free of Charge) of one case (a smaller one) but refused to make any of the bigger- which is the one I needed! I was standing at the counter with a copier I borrowed from a friend and had my own paper to make the copies.... Was she "yankin' my chain"?

I looked under those codes, and I couldn't find anything, could you please tell me what section it is under? Thank you.