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Family,
Entertainment & Sports

Nov. 27, 2019

‘Marriage Story’: Checking the facts

Judge Lawrence Riff of the Los Angeles County Superior Court’s Family Law Division Baumbach got a lot right but a few things wrong. Here he fact checks four of them.

Stanley Mosk Courthouse

Lawrence P. Riff

Supervising Judge
Los Angeles County Superior Court

Noah Baumbach's excellent new movie "Marriage Story" is in fact an end-of-marriage story centered on a nasty child custody dispute (in our specialized argot, a "bi-coastal move-way"). All the legal stuff occurs in the Los Angeles family law legal community and the Los Angeles County Superior Court. Baumbach got a lot right but a few things wrong. Let's fact check four of them.

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