Adjournments
§ 626. Adjournments. (a) The court may adjourn a fact-finding hearing or a dispositional hearing for good cause shown on its own motion or on motion made on behalf of the child, or on motion of the parent or other person responsible for the care of the child.
(b) At the conclusion of a fact-finding hearing and after it has made findings required before a dispositional hearing may commence, the court may adjourn the proceedings to enable it to make inquiry into the surroundings, conditions, and capacities of the persons involved in the proceedings.
Court may adjourn either hearing for good cause (own motion or a party's). After fact-finding findings, it may adjourn to investigate the surroundings, conditions, and capacities of those involved.
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 5 — The JG-22 Family Court Act and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.