Family courts in Arizona and elsewhere deal with some of the most sensitive and intensely personal legal matters—those involving families. But are family courts and divorce courts the same? While family courtrooms are filled with divorce proceedings, and divorce-related disputes are the number one type of cases heard in family courts, there are no separate divorce courts.
Many people think of family lawyers as divorce attorneys, but a family law attorney represents clients in a wide array of family legal matters including more positive aspects of law, such as child adoption.
