Santa Cruz County (Wastsonville)
WATSONVILLE — Judge Kim E. Baskett calls her assignment the “hodgepodge.”
Forty percent of the cases she sees in Santa Cruz County Superior Court involve family law, mostly marriage dissolutions, separations, child custody and visitation disputes. Then, on Tuesday mornings, she covers a civil harassment calendar, which includes workplace violence and elder protection, areas of focus requiring a great deal of time because... (continued)