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Pretrial hearing
A pretrial hearing is a meeting with the judge that happens before trial, if the parties have not
come to an agreement by that point.
Usually, the judge tries to get a sense of how the trial will come out and nudge the parties to
compromise along those lines.
Trials consume the judge's time and the state's resources, and usually they end up where the judges
expected, so judges try to avoid them, by strongly encouraging the spouses and their lawyers
to come to an agreement before an actual trial.
In most cases, the judge succeeds, and the
spouses and their lawyers do reach final agreement after that.
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