Tell us you have never handled a contested family law case without telling us you have never handled a contested family law case. Apply the facts? Cute. Whose facts and which facts is the first question. Almost never a single unified set of facts to apply. Apply the law? What law? What procedure. What rules of evidence. Depends on the department, day of the week and phase of the moon. The judges down there tend to run on feels and “cause I said so” logic. The litigants hate each other, and for whatever reason, the attorneys tend to channel their clients. Marry Parry (and most any of the others you may want to name) are the result of practicing (sometimes for decades) in a mostly skewed, some would say damaged, system and they all take the bench with the attitude of “someone did it to me, or did it this way and I liked it, and no one can tell me to do it differently.”