Quick question about an emergency hearing

4 points•3 comments•submitted by seattle-sam to r/legaladvice

I get an email at 3:30 pm that my wife’s attorney had scheduled an emergency hearing for tomorrow at 3:30 pm. This is all news to me.

This includes financial and custody and a restraining order until the temporary hearing.

Then, I saw an email from my X to the attorney saying she would be there at 8:30 am. I dig into the email and notice that the time was changed to 8:30 am tomorrow. But I never got that email.

I’m still trying to get an attorney. I previously had been working with a collaborative attorney and only figured out on Friday that this was going to be litigation.

Can I do anything to postpone this until I can have representation? Otherwise, I’m going to lose big time.

Edit: this is in Washington state.