Online Hearings
Most counties are now conducting hearings by zoom (or some other video conferencing platform). At the time of your hearing, please enter the platform with your camera off and your microphone muted. There will likely be other matters on the docket, and the commissioner may call cases in any order. When your case is called, please turn your camera on but keep your microphone off unless instructed otherwise.
Friends and Family are not permitted to be on the platform with you. They can join the hearing from a separate device, and label themselves as an “observer”. They should keep their camera and audio off for the entire hearing.
NEVER appear with your children on zoom.
- How to Access Your Online Hearing
- Pierce County Family Law Hearings
- Please select the appropriate time and courtroom
- King County Family Law and Domestic Violence Protection Order Hearings
- For Domestic Violence Hearings, please click on the “Morning (8:30 am) Calendar”.
- For Family Law Hearings, please click on the “Afternoon (1 p.m.) Calendar”.
- Note: This link takes you to three days of hearing links, please locate your court date to find your case.
- King County District Court – Criminal
- Please click on the appropriate courtroom.
- How to Use Zoom
- If you do not have zoom downloaded, you can still join from your internet browser by clicking on the link for your hearing (click “join meeting” when the link takes you there).
- If there is no link and you need to join with a meeting ID, go here to join by browser.
- If you would like to download the zoom app on your camera or laptop in preparation for your hearing, please do so here.
- Zoom Etiquette
- Appear in appropriate clothing.
- It is never appropriate to be driving during a hearing, please pull over if you are in your car.
- Do not use the chat feature.
- Do not walk around with your camera.
- Do not eat anything on camera.
- Please place yourself somewhere with a wall behind you when possible (other professional settings are fine, try to avoid the camera pointing towards large spaces behind you).
- We don’t want to see your bed (yes this warrants its own bullet point).
