Family court judges must hold hearings within 72 hours for parents jailed for ignoring court dates on charges of failure to pay child support.

Administrative Director of the Courts Richard Williams issued the mandate last Wednesday in a memorandum to all assignment judges, the day after a Mercer County judge in a putative class-action suit called failure to provide expeditious review “a substantial danger to procedural due process.”

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