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AJC.com > Legislature > Blog > Archives > 2007 > January > 24 > Entry
DEL.ICIO.USCourts see increasing number of domestic cases
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Supreme Court Justice Leah Ward Sears declared today that the state of Georgia’s judiciary is “solid, sound and stable,” but she decried the increase in domestic relations cases in state courts.
Such cases now account for 65 percent of all civil cases in Georgia’s superior courts, Sears said, and now outnumber all criminal cases. Divorce, drug and alcohol abuse and domestic violence and child neglect are fueling the growing caseload, she said.
“Our trial judges are working hard trying to fill a void that has resulted from this sad cultural phenomenon,” Sears said during her annual address to a joint session of the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate. “They are being asked to do this even though they typically lack the resources and expertise to do much more than pick up the broken pieces after families have already fallen apart.”
Sears then called on the lawmakers for help.
“I ask that you join with us in refusing to accept the decline of the two-parent family as inevitable,” she said. “We can and we must do everything we can to strengthen our families because it is the best way we have to facilitate responsibility, ensure equality, and shape self-governing citizens who may never need to see the inside of a court of law.”
Lawmakers gave Sears a standing ovation.
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