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Counsel offers a typed summary of text messages
Custody hearing. Counsel hands the witness a typed document her office prepared, summarizing text messages between the parties.
Hearing transcript
- 01ATTORNEY:Your Honor, I move to admit Petitioner's Exhibit 12, a transcript prepared by my office of text messages between the parties from January through March.
Question
What is the strongest objection?
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