Blackford v. Boone Cnty. Area Plan Comm'n, 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind.Ct.App. 2015) (quotation omitted).
There are no "mechanical tests" for determining whether a request for a continuance was made for good cause. SeeBlackford v. Boone County Area Plan Com'n , 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind. Ct. App. 2015). Rather, the decision to grant or deny a continuance turns on the circumstances present in a particular case, id. , and the circumstances of this particular case justified the trial court's decision.
Blackford v. Boone Cnty. Area Plan Comm'n, 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind.Ct.App. 2015) (quotation omitted).
Motions for continuance made for the first time on the morning of trial are disfavored. Blackford v. Boone Cnty. Area Plan Comm'n, 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind.Ct.App. 2015).
[¶16] "A trial court's decision to grant or deny a motion to continue a trial date is reviewed for an abuse of discretion, and there is a strong presumption the trial court properly exercised its discretion." Blackford v. Boone Cnty. Area Plan Comm'n, 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind.Ct.App. 2015).
Blackford v. Boone Cnty. Area Plan Comm'n, 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind.Ct.App. 2015) (internal citations and quotations omitted).
Id. (citing Blackford v. Boone County Area Plan Com'n, 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind.Ct.App. 2015)). [¶8] At a certain point in the proceedings, however, the continuances and delays no longer relied on the requisite finding of good cause.
See Blackford v. Boone Cnty. Area Plan Comm'n, 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind.Ct.App. 2015)
There are no "mechanical tests" for determining whether a request for a continuance was made for good cause. SeeBlackford v. Boone County Area Plan Com'n, 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind.Ct.App. 2015).
"[A] motion for continuance should be made at the earliest practicable time after knowledge of the necessity for a continuance" is acquired. Blackford v. Boone Cnty. Area Plan Comm'n, 43 N.E.3d 655, 664 (Ind.Ct.App. 2015) (citing Clodfelder v. Walker, 234 Ind. 219, 222, 125 N.E.2d 799, 800 (1955)). If Mother believed that DCS's pretrial submissions were too voluminous and/or tardy (which the supplemental discovery apparently was not), she should have asked the trial court to continue the hearing at the earliest available opportunity.