Orange County (Orange)
ORANGE — After 22 years in the Orange County public defender’s office, Michael E. Perez likens his new job as a family law judge to “drinking out of a fire hose.”
Civil procedure didn’t come up much when he was defending accused criminals, but it’s at the center of the divorce, child custody and domestic violence issues he sees from the bench today, and it’s coupled with unfamiliar statutes and case law that regularly pre... (continued)