Art. 660 Order of adjudication hearing

If you're going through a court case involving a child, this rule gives the judge control over how the hearing runs. The judge decides the order in which evidence gets presented during the adjudication hearing. This means the judge picks whether one side presents their evidence and witnesses first, followed by the other side, or handles things in a different order.

This gives judges flexibility to run hearings in a way that makes sense for each specific case. There's no fixed rule that says the state must always go first, or that the child's side must always go second. The judge looks at the situation and decides what order will work best for that particular hearing.

For families and children involved in these cases, this means the process might look a little different from one hearing to the next. The judge has the final say on how things unfold in the courtroom that day.