Family Court - retaining a case

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Does anyone know why a judge would seek to retain all potential future hearings in family court ?

If they think it's likely to be long and or complicated proceedings they will retain them for continuity. I've also seen proceedings where I feel like the judge decides to retain proceedings because one of the parents is particularly bizarre or challenging and they get professionally invested in seeing things to the end.

@MiltonNorthern but this is for future hearings. So the initial proceeding reached a final hearing and no longer in court but the judge has retained for any future applications. If that makes sense :)

Oh I see
well then I would say that it's probably a combination of both. Does that fit?

Potentially. Perhaps the judge thought that there was a chance it would return to court quite often.