California Court of Appeal

Judgment entered on husband's petition for dissolution of marriage is reversed as the trial court erred by denying wife's request under the Americans with Disabilities Act and California Rule of Court 1.100 to continue the trial. Wife suffers from bipolar disorder, a potentially incapacitating mental illness, and, on her psychiatrist's recommendation, checked herself into a hospital the day before trial was set to resume.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/15/2008
• Published 01/15/2008

Judges

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Trope and Trope, Thomas Paine Dunlap, Brian P. Lepak, Los Angeles;  Snell & Wilmer and Richard A. Derevan, Costa Mesa, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Honey Kessler Amado, Beverly Hills, for Respondent.