[WSBAPT] Pierce County TEDRA practice question

[Eric Nelsen]

I'm filing a TEDRA petition in Pierce and I find Local Rule 7 a little confusing.

Where do I set the initial TEDRA hearing?

PCLR 7(b)(1)(B)(ii)<https://www.piercecountywa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/115747/2022-Local-Rules> says that Commissioners handle all probate and trust matters "except for...initial hearings under TEDRA if live testimony is to be presented or the hearing will likely last longer than twenty minutes, which are heard by the assigned Judicial Department on its Friday motion docket."

I don't plan to call live witnesses and I don't think argument should last longer than 20 minutes, but I also have some potential pro se objections and I haven't the faintest idea what they might do. Should I just go ahead and set it on the Commissioner calendar and let the Commissioner bump it to the assigned judge if it gets to be too much? Or is there some other protocol that would help me decide whether to start off with the assigned judge immediately?

Many thanks in advance--

Sincerely,

Eric

Eric C. Nelsen
Sayre Law Offices, PLLC
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Seattle WA 98144-3909
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