Case ID: so2d_819/html/0331-03.html
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Author: {"author": "KNOLL, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Claude Patrick BURCH v. Wendy Mae Wernli BURCH.
    No. 2002-C-1533.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    June 21, 2002.
   In re Burch, Wendy Mae Wernli;—Defendant; Applying for Writ of Certiorari and/or Review, Parish of Caddo, 1st Judicial District Court Div. A, No. 440,211; to the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, No. 35717-CA.

Denied.

KNOLL, J.,

concurs in the denial and assigns reasons. LA. REV. STAT. ANN. SECTIONS 9:355.1-355.17 provide detailed provisions for relocating a child’s residence with specific time lines for notice of relocation, objections to relocation, and hearings for such relocation. I write to highlight that hearings on either a temporary or permanent order permitting or restricting relocation “shall be accorded appropriate priority on the Court’s docket.” LA. REV. STAT. ANN. Section 9:355.9. This Court has further recognized that, to the extent practicable, any and all proceedings affecting children should be given expeditious treatment. LA. SUP. COURT RULES XXXII-XXXIV. Ac-eordingly, I would remand this matter to the district court to hear all pending matters in this proceeding with priority and to expeditiously rule on the issues presented.