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===Trial management conferences===
Parties heading to trial are required to schedule and attend a trial management conference (unless the party has a lawyer, in which case the party does not have to attend as long as they are available by telephone to speak with their lawyer if instructions are needed during the TMC). The trial Trial management conference is a meeting conferences are meetings with a judge or a master to discuss how the a trial will proceed and what, if any, additional steps must be taken to ready make sure that the parties are ready for trial, such as exchanging documents and information, organizing experts' reports, or requiring that a views of the child report be prepared.
The parties are normally required to attend the trial management conference in person, unless they have a lawyer and are available by telephone to speak with their lawyer in the event instructions are needed during the conference. More information about trial management conferences can be found later in this chapter, in the section: Preparing for and Going to Trial [[Family Law Trials in Supreme Court: [[Preparing for and Going to Trial |Trials in the Supreme Court#Schedule and attend a trial management conference|Schedule and attend a trial management conference]].
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