Lenker v. Halifax Twp. Bd. of Super (Sweigard)

How courts have described this case

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• “Requiring the superior court to inform pro se litigants of all the relevant substantive law would put a trial judge in the precarious position of acting as attorney for an unrepresented party . . . .”
• “Requiring the superior court to inform pro se litigants of all the relevant substantive law would put a trial judge in the precarious position of acting as attorney for an unrepresented party, which is exactly what we [have] sought to avoid .... ”
• 'The general rule is that courts divide property acquired only during marriage. But so long as the parties do marry, the trial court is free to consider the parties' entire relationship, including any period(s
• “[A]lthough . . . trial judges should take limited steps to mitigate the difficulty of representing oneself, a trial court may not compromise its impartiality by saving a litigant from the litigant’s choice of a lawyer, including when a litigant chooses to represent himself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).