Proposed Changes to MRCP 4 and 81
March 8, 2016 § 4 Comments
The MSSC is seeking comments on a proposal to amend MRCP 81 to clarify it, and moving its process provisions to R4.
You can access the proposed changes at this link.
These changes were recommended by the Conference of Chancery Judges in 2013, and then analyzed and studied by the MSSC’s Civil Rules Advisory Committee, which passed them on to the MSSC, which has been considering them since.
If you have any comments, pro or con, it will help the process if you will follow the instructions at the link. Deadline is April 1, 2016.
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I find it troubling that the provisions of 81(d)(1) did not survive the move to Rule 4.
Be sure to send your comment to the MSSC.
I noticed that contempt is in the same sentence pertaining only to custody and divorce, and not, as it presently is, within its own semicolons. I see this as problematic. What about contempt for not doing something other than the matters listed inside the semicolons? Am I reading it wrongly, or does anyone else see the potential problem?
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