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Perspective

Mar. 20, 2010

Integrating Non-Conflictual Approaches To Resolving Family Law Cases

Hon. Gretchen Taylor (Ret.) explains why non-conflictual approaches may be the only practical solution for overcoming family court delays.

By Gretchen W. Taylor

While it is hard to dispute that the family court experience is only randomly effective in servicing the very litigants who are the reason for its existence, the inference that this is the fault of presiding and other judges for failing to implement 'appropriate' case management controls, or that the assumed lack of these controls has itself created a 'backlog,' may miss a more fundamental but nonetheless subtle point: Believing that only the county,...

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