CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing
......Evidentiary Issues: Selected
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Sanctions for failure to comply with local rules must be reasonable and appropriate.

Although court can exclude evidence as sanction for violating order to exchange witness lists, exclusion of sole witness petitioner's testimony, for not having been on list, was abuse of discretion.

Trial courts have inherent power to exclude evidence not produced in discovery.

Subpoenas properly quashed where F did not tender the issue of his medical history; F's physician-patient privilege not waived.

Schedule of assets, partially based on non-admitted evidence, was admissible as general compilation of documents that could not be examined individually by court without great loss of time. (EC §1523 (d).)

Evidentiary Issues: Selected.