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Judicial Leadership In Family Court: A Cautionary Tale, Jane M. Spinak
Judicial Leadership In Family Court: A Cautionary Tale, Jane M. Spinak
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For the past 35 years I have been practicing in, teaching, and writing about the Family Court. The problem-solving court movement in the last two decades – with its proliferation of drug courts, mental health courts, and veterans courts, to name a few – renewed my interest in the historical roots of the family court because of the parallels between the original juvenile court and the recent problem solving court movement. One of the key elements – perhaps the defining element – in both is the role of the judge as the leader of the court. That is what I …