Place family-court orders beside the dependency record
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Make a table of each family-court order in the file: the date, the court if the order names one, and the custody or visitation term copied from the order. Beside it, copy any dependency order that mentions the same child. Add no conclusion about which order controls.
- What the lawyer must review
- You decide how the orders sit together. Family Code § 3020(a) states that the health, safety and welfare of children shall be the court's primary concern in determining the best interests of children when making any orders regarding physical or legal custody or visitation. Section 3044(a) states a rebuttable presumption, after a finding that a party seeking custody perpetrated domestic violence within the previous five years against the other party, the child, the child's siblings, or a person described in § 3011(a)(2)(A), that sole or joint physical or legal custody to that party is detrimental to the best interest of the child. The presumption is rebutted only by a preponderance of the evidence. Open § 3011 before you apply that cross-reference. Section 671 is a condition of a Title IV-E state plan. Which order controls is your decision under the law of the court that issued each order.
- Written for / version
- United States versionUS
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Consider narrowly defined preparation support after confirming the tool’s capability and permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Review operative clauses in the complete document, including definitions, cross-references, schedules and inconsistencies with the instructions.
- Confirm instructions and personal circumstances through appropriate direct engagement. Have the responsible lawyer assess safety, capacity or vulnerability concerns and escalation.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.