California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Estate of Grimes v. Grimes, A141422 (Cal. App. 2015):
These are not mere technical requirements, but important rules of appellate procedure designed to require litigants to present their cause systematically so that the court " 'may be advised, as they read, of the exact question under consideration, instead of being compelled to extricate it from the mass.' " (Landa v. Steinberg (1932) 126 Cal.App. 324, 325.)
More importantly, the incomprehensible nature of appellant's briefs makes it impossible for this court to discern what precise legal or factual errors he is claiming were made by the trial judge, and how such errors were prejudicial. We are not required to search the record on our own seeking error. (Del Real v. City of Riverside (2002) 95 Cal.App.4th 761, 768.)
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