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FAMILY COURTS
Author(s) -
Folberg Jay
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.174-1617.1999.tb00544.x
Subject(s) - family law , family court , perspective (graphical) , advisory committee , law , political science , adaptation (eye) , public administration , psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , neuroscience
Oregon has encouraged experimentation with family courts using the one family‐one judge approach. At the First Annual Family Law Conference, sponsored by the Oregon Judical Department and the Oregon Family Law Advisory Committee, the author presented a keynote talk addressing the “ethical” issues raised by the use of comprehensive family courts. In this adaptation, the author places the concept of family courts in historical perspective and then assesses the rationale for them and the policy trade‐offs involved, as well as possible procedural safeguards. Consolidated family courts using judical specialists dealing with multiple interrelated parties and integrating an array of social services appear to offer a better approach to related party cases. The author concludes that the benefits outweigh the speculative risks.