La Paz County court calendar shows active week of hearings in Parker

A dependency hearing and a family-law trial pushed La Paz County’s Parker docket into public view, showing how often the local superior court is dealing with child-welfare and domestic cases at the same time. Judge Jessica L. Quickle’s calendar for Monday, June 22 through Friday, June 26 listed a Tuesday, June 23, 2 p.m. dependency hearing and a Wednesday, June 24, 9 a.m. family-law trial in In re the Marriage of Kimberlina Morales v. James Morales.

Dependency cases matter because they place children, parents, and the court’s role in family safety at the center of the system. In a county as geographically spread out as La Paz, the public calendar is more than a scheduling sheet; it is the clearest way to see what kind of hearing is happening, when it is set, and whether it can be followed remotely.

La Paz County says it has adopted remote- and in-person-hearing recommendations from the Plan B Work Groups Report under Administrative Order AO202200004. Its court-calendar pages say remote hearings are offered through Zoom, and the posted calendars include the judge’s name, hearing time, case number, case title, interpreter needs, attorney names, appearance type and the reason for the hearing. The county’s public-access page also says physical access is limited and the public may listen to live audio proceedings of most civil and criminal events by telephone.

That hybrid system matters in Parker, Quartzsite and the surrounding communities, where attorneys, witnesses and family members often cannot simply walk into the courthouse. The same judge’s weekly calendar can move from dependency to family-law and then to trial settings in a single week, showing how wide the superior court’s workload is in a rural county court system.

Quickle’s role in La Paz County has also been recurring over time. Arizona Supreme Court pro tempore orders appointed Jessica L. Quickle, State Bar No. 024128, for a term beginning January 1, 2023 and ending June 30, 2023, then again for a term beginning upon signature and ending June 30, 2026. A later order appointed her again from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027.

Families and attorneys trying to follow a hearing can reach the La Paz County Superior Court Clerk’s remote-hearing help line at 928-669-6134 or lapazjudicialassistant@courts.az.gov. Wider court access also runs through the Arizona Judicial Branch, whose Public Access Case Lookup covers information from 177 of 184 courts in Arizona, while eAccess offers 24/7 access to superior-court civil and criminal records filed on or after July 1, 2010. In La Paz County, the weekly calendar is the public’s clearest window into a court that is still handling urgent family matters in the open.