how can I find out a judge's past record on the rulings he's made?

Question

My brother is involved in a custody hearing and from the beginning the judge is favoring the mother. Typical in some ways I suppose, but my brother has been the primary care-giver since his son was born. I was interested in finding out if this judge has ever awarded custody to a father.

Answer 1

All you have to do is go to the courthouse and ask them for the paperwork of the judge's previous cases. Most of the time though, they'll want to know specific ones, and you will probably have a fee. Typically though, most judges always favor the mother unless found "negligent or unfit". Good luck!

Answer 2

once a case has been filed with the courts they become public record. all you need to do is go down to the court house or access the counties/states web site to see all case the judges has been affiliated with and his rulings. Most judges also have there own web site within the counties/state where you can see how the stand on certain issues.

Answer 3

Depending on how large you area is (the Jurisdiction of this Juge's court) You can look the matter up yourself. While of course juvenile matters are closed to the public theat means Juvenile crimes and neglect and or abandonment cases. If you are refereing strictly to dicorce and child custody cases they are a matter of Public record. You can start in the civil division of the clerk of court's office in your county courthouse. Another way to do this is to subsribe to one on the data base information software programs that attorneys use to look up cases for court. Attorney's rely on and cite cases that the Judge and Judges in higher courts (for appelate reasons) have held (done ) ruled in cases with the same or similar facts as the one before the court. You can pay and subscribe to west law, lexus -nexis, but it probably pretty pricey, try fast case, or finldaw.com depending on where you are located, in la., florida etc the cases we look for can be found in Southern 2nd , so you would start your query (search) there. The program will walk through the steps. You can type in the Judge's name and a few facts about what yo are looking for. To start out you could even just try to google this judge and see what cases come up. Type in his name in quotes + rulings or Opinions /(name of your county, state, )it would help if you knew the name of your appelate court like inLouisiana we start in for example Bossier we start in thw 26th judicial DISTRICT COURT, THEN WHEN ONE OF THE TWO PARTIES APPEALS AN ISSUE WHICH ALMOST ALWAYS THEY DO , IT GOES TO THE 2NS CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS, THEN TO THE LA STATE SUPREM COURT, SO FOR EXAMPLE IF I wanted to know how judge apple ruled and hope dto read some of his cases i would start with

www.googe.com

"judge Robert Apple"+custody 26th judcial/bossier 2nd circuit appeals

or i might try divorce or visitation just play around wit it you will hit one sooner or later

Answer 4

Judge Cox Indian River Co

Answer 5

Trial court records are not published. You may be able to go to your local records center and look up sequential numbers of family law cases. If that judge is only one of several, it may be possible to filter down to that judges opinions.

Answer 6

go down to your local county clerk's office aks for the case or look it up on your county website

Answer 7

that will be hard to do, i dont think they keep records like that, and most judges do side with women unless u can prove she is unfit