A lack of judges, and, in many states, a shortage of other staff needed to keep courts going, are clogging the system. Tim McGoughran, head of New Jersey’s bar association, says that pre-pandemic, most divorce cases going to trial did so within a year. Now some are entering their third or fourth year. For the past three years, the court system has operated with an average of more than 60 judicial vacancies.
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