Family
Oct. 7, 2026
Keeping it professional: Civility costs nothing and gains everything in family court
In family law, professionalism and civility are not simply good manners; they are an important part of making the system work.
Torrance Courthouse
Timothy M. Weiner
Supervising Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court
Southwestern Univ Law School
Maybe every judge feels this way about their assignment, but I think that family law is different. The people in a family law courtroom are not strangers fighting over a contract that was negotiated at arm's length or people who met only when the front of one party's car unexpectedly hit the back of the other party's car. They are parents, spouses and exes who will stay connected through kids, houses, money, holiday schedules and the subsequent modification of the initial rulin...
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