Serving and Filing

[Ariana]

What happens when the other lawyer serves papers but does not file them by the date and time ordered in the judge's endorsement?

[logicalvelocity]

Ariana,

If the documents are filed now into the record, I suspect nothing would happen.

With respect to contempt to court orders; Contempt of court orders are quasi criminal and as such has to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt threshold that the individual deliberately and willfully disobeyed the orders which can be difficult to prove. For instance, all they could say is that they misunderstood the order.


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