Orange County (Orange)
ORANGE — When she found her first assignment was juvenile dependency, deciding whether to remove parental rights for mistreatment of their children, Judge Isabel Apkarian confessed she was not very thrilled. As a public defender for 18 years, she came from a world of “beyond reasonable doubt.”
Now, when making a ruling, “I know I’m breaking the heart of one party,” she said. “The law only affords parents of a child under 3 a gua... (continued)