Family
Sep. 11, 2026
Say it early or pay for it later
A family lawyer's eight-month delay in invoking a client's right to have one judge hear bifurcated issues turned a routine calendaring dispute into a $20,000 sanction.
There is a familiar move in Los Angeles family law practice. Counsel agrees to bifurcate, attends the trial-setting conferences, watches the case get calendared somewhere unwelcome, and only then announces that the client will not waive her right to have one judge hear the whole case. The bifurcation collapses, the setting starts over and everyone goes back to square one.
That move now costs money. In In re Marriage of Martinez and Camou (July 9, ...
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