Hicks v. Pleasants

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding “the best practice is for the trial court to direct the parties, or the delinquent party having best access to the proof, to fill the evidentiary void”
• observing that defaulted pro se litigant's prompt explanation to the court, during his divorce hearing, that he had not meant to stipulate to the values at issue could have been construed \as a request to set aside the default\
• “Where a party identifies a significant marital asset but presents no evidence as to its value, the best practice is for the trial court to direct the parties, or the delinquent party having best access to the proof, to fill the evidentiary void.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).