What is a divorce minute order, when will you need one and how do you get one. All that and more is answered by the article by Tim Blankenship with https://divorce661.com and discussed in the below video.
First off, let’s talk about what a divorce minute order is. A minute order is simply the court clerks detailed notes of what happened in a hearing or trial. So you won’t have a minute order unless you have been to court. So if you have had a trial or hearing and need to know what orders the court made on that date, you would get a copy of the minute order.
Now, why would you need one? Most people will never need a minute order, but there are circumstances where you will. One such circumstance is if you go to a hearing at divorce court asking the judge to make order after you had filed a motion. So let’s say you filed a motion for spousal support or child support, the hearing was held and the judge made orders.
If you are representing yourself, the judge may ask you to prepare what is called an Order After Hearing. It essentially is a “Order… After… The hearing. You have to type of the order of the court and would use the minute order to get the exact language of what the judge ordered during the hearing. When you submit the order after hearing back to the court for the judge’s signature, they will verify the language of the order matched that of the minute order.
In the video above we go into a little more detail about how to complete the order after hearing, but that will be for another blog post and another video down the road.
Now, now to you get a minute order. This is quite simple. All you need to do is go to the court room your case was heard in (if it was recent) and give the court clerk the date of the hearing and request the minute order. If it has been several weeks and there are no future hearings, your file may have made it back to the storage area, in which case you would request it from the court clerk’s office.
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