Girl Drawing Dead
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State of Maryland - In a custody case that has been labeled as "Status: Closed", when the non-custodial party intends to file a motion for change of custody thereby re-opening the case, but feels they need to be in possession of documents that will support their claims as to Material Change and Best Interest Standard before a judge will grant the motion, hear arguments, or even begin scheduling and would prefer to be armed with these supporting documents before the case is re-opened, can they have subpoenas issued for those documents while the case is still in "closed" status?
The documents I am referring to are things such as a report from a casino detailing the opposing party's number of hours playing, which will take 30 days from the time they RECEIVE the subpoena (not when it's issued) and the last time I subpoenaed the same docs from the same casino, I had to go through the Custodian of Documents, then the Legal Department and the whole process took about 60 days, which I fear is too long.
In other words, I don't want to file the motion without already having supporting docs in hand for fear that I may end up in front of a judge, unable to support my claims, if the case scheduling moves faster than the subpoenas/documents being sent to me do.
The documents I am referring to are things such as a report from a casino detailing the opposing party's number of hours playing, which will take 30 days from the time they RECEIVE the subpoena (not when it's issued) and the last time I subpoenaed the same docs from the same casino, I had to go through the Custodian of Documents, then the Legal Department and the whole process took about 60 days, which I fear is too long.
In other words, I don't want to file the motion without already having supporting docs in hand for fear that I may end up in front of a judge, unable to support my claims, if the case scheduling moves faster than the subpoenas/documents being sent to me do.