In California, you can remove a judge in any civil matter, including a divorce, by making a timely challenge. Usually, it is not a good idea.
In his case, Rocker Richie Sambora has moved to replace the judge presiding over his divorce case.
The Bon Jovi guitarist filed papers in Los Angeles on Friday - just weeks after Heather Locklear petitioned for a divorce - asking that the judge assigned to preside over his case be removed.
The papers read: "The judge is prejudiced against the party or the interest of the party so that the affiant (Sambora) cannot or believes that she (Sambora's attorney) cannot have a fair and impartial trial."
Read about it here.
what if the prejudice only becomes known long after the judge is assigned? In this particular case, my son is in prison, the attorney I hired for him just told me to expect a bad result from the property settlement because the judge told him that "my son's testimony would be discounted because he is a felon"
Posted by: beck | February 04, 2009 at 07:53 PM