Court Procedures / Evidence / Service

In general, orders are usually temporary or final. For an ongoing case, a temporary order can expire at the next court date (and is often renewed from court date to court date) or it can expire at a set date or at a set event (such as orders relating to a parent’s military deployment may expire upon return from deployment, whenever that date may be). In other situations, an order may be temporary but there may be no expiration date or no future court date - in those situations, sometimes it may last until either party files in court to ask that it be changed or dismissed. In general, final orders, which are often arrived at after a hearing or trial, may last indefinitely until they are changed by the judge (often at the request of a party) – or, sometimes a final order related to custody will naturally end when the child turns 18. So, as you can see, there are a lot of different circumstances related to when an order can expire and unfortunately, I cannot tell you about your specific order. If you would like to show your order to a lawyer and talk to a lawyer for advice, you can find free and paid lawyers here: LINK And for further information on child custody in STATE, you can read more on our website, WomensLaw.org, here:
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