Beauregard v. Millwood-Beauregard

Peters, J. (dissenting).

I respectfully dissent. With scores of litigants desperate for trial time in the Family Courts of our State, assertive calendar control by the trial bench is precisely the type of corrective action needed. When a trial date is imminent and oral reminders regarding outstanding discovery requests are provided to counsel, a dismissal of the action based upon a finding by Family Court of a willful failure to respond to interrogatories and demands to produce should be upheld.

Here, custody/visitation petitions were filed in September and October 1992. A conference before…