Family court: Where the most private issues become public record
Last year, more than two million people got married in the United States and about a million got divorced. Marriage creates a web of rights and obligations, and when two people break up, that doesn’t mean the relationship is over, at least the legal relationship. There’s still the question of who gets the kid for the Christmas holiday, and who pays off the charge debt on the Sears card. These are the sorts of issues tackled in our nation’s family courts. As I’m in transit between DC and SF this morning, I share with you a short interview I did last year with a family law judge about his experiences on the front lines of one of the law’s messiest institutions. Audio above.
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