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Crimes, Courts and Communities in the Bay Area

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12/21/09

  • Family Courts in Alameda County

    Family Courts by SpotUs

    From KALW

    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 part of a series funded by Spot Us, we sent KALW’s Rina Palta to Alameda County’s courts for two weeks. During that time, she interviewed a family law judge about his experiences on the front lines of one of the law’s messiest institutions

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