Family,
Judges and Judiciary
Nov. 22, 2023
Family law as a training ground: the need for reevaluation
Why is the family court the only court that is forced to treat its litigants with disrespect while litigants in other legal disciplines receive very different treatment. If family court was a business, it would have been forced into bankruptcy decades ago.
Mark E. Minyard
Partner
Minyard Morris
Minyard is a partner at Minyard Morris and served on the Elkins Family Law Task Force
The Elkins Family Law Task Force (EFLTF) recommended that family courts be given “well qualified judicial officers.” However, in practice, rather than assigning judges to the family law panel who have either family law or prior judicial experience, newly appointed judges, with neither family law experience nor any training in managing a calendar, are routinely assigned to a family law panel for their initial judicial assignment. Is this prac...
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