Q: Transfer venue to avoid a delayed trial
I filed 5motions. 1 contempt for interfering with child's therapeutic relationship. (parties ordered to comply with therapist recommendations. Mother refuses to do so and removed child from therapy)2 contempt for failing to produce child for scheduled visitation. ( Mother is letting child dictate schedule) 3 motion to order mom to undergo psychological evaluation. (Mother has mental illness refuses to be treated for condition) 4 motion to modify visitation (seeking primary residential custody due to contemptuous and parental misconduct)
Case has been pending for over 6mo in Oldham county. When I asked for an expedited hearing the judge said she would issues an order. That was in October. Because it's a child custody matter and parents have constitutional rights to they kids, is it proper, as a matter of due process, to ask Oldham county to transfer my case to another forum. where it can be readily disposed of. My case originated in Jefferson Co.
A: The facts as you set them out do not support a change of venue. There is a backlog of cases already in the jurisdiction you mentioned still waiting for adjudication. It takes a while to get a decision.
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