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Sep. 2, 2021

What’s Important?

Family law judge uses stories to connect with families

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San Bernardino County (San Bernardino)

SAN BERNARDINO — Commissioner Shannon Suber has no shortage of analogies to help bickering parents in her family law courtroom focus on what’s important.

When children are at the center of a case, she has the one about a river.

“If you just hold your child’s hand in a swift moving river, they may drown, … they may be carried away,” Suber said. “But if you could hold them up, as hard as it is, as much ... (continued)

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