Court Closures

Every third Wednesday of the month, the courts in southern California are, for the most part closed now, indefinitely. While this is an inconvenience and loss of income for many, many people, I believe the worst victims of this budget fiasco are the family law litigants and the probate litigants, whose lives all hang in balance and in limbo for months and years as it is, and now the delays are anticipated to be months and years longer. With those delays are the huge, sometimes unsurmountable costs of legal fees, unnecessary support payments, decrease in values of property, inability to purchase property or obtain further education or pursue careers, and much, much more. I often decry where the priorities are for my fellow Californians. My usual cause celebre is the lack of priority of education expenses. I now add the burden of the court systems. Will we all have to take to private judging to effectuate our clients' needs?