Swida v. Raventos

The former husband petitions for a writ of prohibition to prevent the trial judge from continuing to preside over the post-dissolution proceedings. He filed a motion to recuse the trial judge after she denied him an opportunity to present any case at all on the former wife’s motion to hold him in contempt for failure to provide financial accountings with respect to certain non-marital assets. We agree and grant the writ.

The motion to recuse alleges, and the transcript of the hearing reveals, that at the hearing on the motion for contempt the judge refused to permit the former husband to…