Rule 130.07 Notice of Findings and Recommendations

When a family or juvenile court commissioner hears a case, that commissioner does not make the final decision. Instead, the commissioner comes up with findings and recommendations, and the case then gets passed on to a judge. This rule explains how the people involved in the case must be told about those findings and recommendations.

Everyone involved in the case has to be notified, including the juvenile, the juvenile's guardian or custodian, and anyone else the court says should know. The court can give this notice in a few different ways. It can happen right there at the hearing, or it can be sent later by mail or another method the court chooses.

The notice has to be in writing unless the commissioner tells the parties in person at the hearing and it gets put on the record. Either way, everyone involved needs to know what the commissioner decided and that the case is moving forward to a judge for a final decision.