CLE: Child Hearsay in Family Law

DR Bench-Bar: Child Hearsay in Family Law CLE
(Approved for 1 General CLE credit)

Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Noon - 1:15 p.m.
ACBA Webinar
(A link to the CLE will be sent to attendees prior to start)

Register by noon on Oct. 5th

Free - ACBA Members
$20 - Nonmember Guests

A panel of judicial officers will answer questions about how the courts in the 18th Judicial District handle child hearsay. 

Questions to be answered include:

1. To what extent are you, as a judge, willing to hear a testimony about what a child has told another:
2. Concerning alleged abuses by the other parent such as in a motion to restrict parenting time offered either by one parent against the other or by the child’s therapist;
3. Concerning a child’s wishes concerning parenting time and parental responsibility as reported by one of the parents;
4. To what extent are you, as a judge, willing to hear directly from a child concerning his or her wishes concerning parenting time and parental responsibility?

   1. Have you allowed direct testimony or statements from a child concerning his or her wishes?  Under what circumstances? 

        

   2. What procedures would you utilize to take testimony or a statement directly from a child?

5. What authority permits a PRE or CFI to report or testify to out of court statements made to them by the children?

6. Have you ever admitted child statement under CRS 13-25-129 or CRE 807 as residual hearsay?

Led by Judicial Officers of Arapahoe & Douglas/Elbert District Courts

• Judge Andrew Baum, Moderator
• Judge Pete Michaelson
• Judge Robert Lung
• Judge Gary Kramer 
• Judge Cynthia Mares
• Magistrate Echo Ryan
• Magistrate James Quinn
• Magistrate Donna Stewart

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