All objection scenarios
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Open-ended invitation to a long monologue
Direct in a custody trial. Counsel is opening the witness's testimony.
Hearing transcript
- 01Q:Tell us everything that has happened with co-parenting between you and the respondent since the divorce decree was entered in March.
Question
What objection should you make?