Family Law - Episode Guide

Lynn Holt, a family law attorney in L.A., starts to rebuild her life and career, after her law partner-husband leaves her and takes the firm with him.

Lynn represents a couple who are suing a doctor for not telling them their child would have Down syndrome; Danni takes a divorce case in which the husband claims his wife is addicted to sex; Randi reveals a disturbing aspect of her past.

A white woman who married a black man tries to gain sole custody of her two children because their white father is teaching them to be racists; an old flame of Danni's seeks her help; Rex represents a man who was hit by a chunk of a beached whale that was exploded.

Randi defends a prison guard accused of raping a woman in her cell; Lynn represents a 17-year-old actor who wants to divorce his teen bride of three months; and Danni is upset that she kissed a client and may have broken up his marriage.

A detective friend of Lynn's seeks her help to have his troubled 15-year-old daughter committed to a mental hospital after finding a list she made of people she'd like to see dead. Meanwhile, Danni tells Don their affair is over, then stumbles upon a surprising office romance.

A deceased woman's parents try to gain custody of their granddaughter, after the girl's nanny is named as her guardian; an elderly actor sues a reporter for libel because he wrote an article stating the aging thespian was dead; Rex comes to the aid of his schizophrenic brother after he lands in jail.

Lynn tries to prevent an immigrant, who is married with three children, from being deported back to Afghanistan because he lied on his application; Rex takes a case in which parents want a soccer game replayed because of an alleged bad call; and Randi and Andres are at odds over an old client of Randi's.

Danni represents a wealthy basketball player who claims he was tricked into getting a woman pregnant; Lynn tries to get a deadbeat client to pay his bill; and a fugitive involved in a government bombing 30 years ago seeks Rex's help to come out of hiding.

Lynn and Michael compete with each other in a case involving a woman who claims she was fired because she has cancer. Meanwhile, Rex defends a teen thief who is incredibly inept at robbery, much to the chagrin of his dad, a professional thief.

Rex tries to help a single mother---who was accused but not convicted of shaking her infant son to death---regain custody of her 3-year-old daughter; Randi represents a dog who was fired from being a company's mascot because he's too old; and Lynn, desperate for new clients, solicits business at a playground and at her gym.

Lynn is chosen by friends to be the arbitrator in a case involving their 8-year-old son who is dying from AIDS---the father wants him to take further medication, while the mother doesn't want to put him through any more suffering. Meanwhile, Danni's father hits a pedestrian and flees the scene; and Rex makes a commercial.

Rex defends a 10-year-old boy accused of murdering a 9-year-old girl for her bicycle; Randi helps a man who claims his wife tried to kill him and placed a hex on him; and Danni discovers that Don's former fiancée is pregnant.

A friend of Rex's tries to regain custody of his 7-year-old daughter after he's released from prison for killing the child's mother; Viveca becomes Rex's associate and defends a famous college quarterback accused of illegally parking in a handicapped parking space.

Lynn represents a mother who kidnapped her 4-year-old daughter two years ago to keep her away from the child's father, who allegedly molested her. Now, the mom wants to work out a deal to have criminal charges against her dropped. Meanwhile, Danni defends a hairdresser who is being sued for refusing to cut a woman's hair.

A 17-year-old boy with a suspected genetic disorder pleads guilty to raping and murdering a girl at a party, then the victim's mother sues his parents for "negligent parenting." Meanwhile, a man tries to get $1 million from his ex-wife because she won a lottery while they were still married but she didn't tell him about it; Danni's dad starts hanging around the office, much to her dismay.

A woman, who used to be a man, tries to get joint custody of her daughter. Meanwhile, a minister is accused by a woman of fathering her deceased sister's 5-year-old son.

Rex's wife stuns him when she suddenly appears and demands he pay her more money each month; Randi's daughter refuses to see her because Randi killed her father; Lynn tries desperately to reunite a mother and her 6-year-old son, but red tape keeps getting in the way.

A friend of Danni's is arrested for kidnapping an 8-year-old boy being abused by his parents; Rex defends a 78-year-old woman who is accused of bringing drugs into the U.S. illegally; Cassie tries to get her parents back together for her birthday.

Danni represents a divorced mother who wants to send her 6-year-old son to a Buddhist school in Bhutan, against the father's wishes; Lynn defends a woman who pays drug addicts to be sterilized; and Michael makes Lynn a generous offer in their ongoing divorce settlement.

Danni defends the office's cleaning lady, who spent and invested money that a bank mistakenly transferred to her account; Randi represents a teen who claims he was framed by police in an effort to coerce him to testify against his criminal brother.

Danni defends a former kiddie-show host for the ownership of his beloved puppet sidekick; Lynn becomes involved in a nasty divorce; Randi is suspected of a D.U.I. when she reacts badly in a traffic accident.

Randi tries to keep a 12-year-old girl from being taken away from her mentally challenged parents; Danni represents a woman who wants to stop her husband from giving away their money to the poor; Lynn starts seeing Michael again.

Lynn defends a priest who is accused of attempted murder, but the priest claims the victim's wounds were caused by the devil during an exorcism; Andres is arrested for allegedly violating the Immigration and Nationality Act by entering into a sham marriage to obtain a green card.

Lynn battles a cutthroat lawyer in a nasty child-custody case involving a birth mother accused of trying to kidnap the son she gave up for adoption five years earlier.

Lynn is shocked to discover the man she's representing in a custody case is a pedophile, and she asks Joe to help her; Randi is stunned when a client sues a bartender for serving him drinks that he claims led to a one night stand that destroyed his marriage.

Lynn represents a dying woman who wants to divorce her high-profile politician husband; Joe accepts Lynn's offer to become a partner with the firm, much to Randi and Rex's displeasure.

Rex fights to get his schizophrenic brother released from the county's psychiatric ward; Randi and Danni take opposite sides in an ugly custody case involving an emotionally disturbed 5-year-old boy.

Danni is appointed case advocate for a boy who, she learns, is being abused in his foster home; Lynn represents distraught grandparents trying to gain custody of their delinquent grandson, who is being sent abroad by his parents to a tough boarding school with questionable methods of discipline.

Danni and Joe bring a lawsuit against the Department of Child Services, after a boy is repeatedly beaten while in foster care; Lynn and Rex compete for the same caretaker.

Rex's schizophrenic brother is charged with murder after he kills a man during a violent rage; Randi tries to get Andres readmitted to the U.S. and discovers a surprising secret about him.

Joe and Lynn defend a hospital for replacing their top kidney-transplant recipient with another one when the first man is convicted of drunk driving; Danni fights for a couple's right to keep a chimpanzee; Randi and Andres struggle to keep their professional relationship in tact after breaking up.

Andres' mother visits him and suddenly attacks a man she believes is the army colonel who murdered her husband and tortured her 30 years ago.

Randi inadvertently ignites a custody dispute when she helps a battered woman get a restraining order against her abusive husband; Lynn hits a crossroads with her teenage daughter; Danni takes another shot at becoming a partner in the firm.

Danni defends a woman accused of murdering her unborn child after a drinking binge causes her to have a miscarriage; and Lynn represents a prostitute who's suing her boyfriend for palimony.

Lynn sues a local news station when it airs exploitative footage of her being molested by a violent mob; Patricia impersonates Viveca at a trial to protect a client from losing a case that involves a torn wedding dress.

A woman gives birth to Siamese twins and then fights the hospital's decision to surgically separate them; Lynn is upset when her ex-husband's new girlfriend tries to bond with her kids.

Lynn defends a man against manslaughter charges when he helps his terminally ill wife commit suicide; Viveca believes race is the reason when is turned down for residency in a beachfront apartment, so she prepares to sue.

Joe defends one-time employee Jamie Wilkins, a 19-year-old charged with drug trafficking who is eager to rat on one of Joe's former drug clients as part of a deal with the prosecution. Elsewhere, Danni falls for a charming but spoiled man who is suing his rich parents for cutting off his allowance.

The firm defends Joe, who is arrested for money laundering after he becomes the target of an overzealous U.S. Attorney; Danni's new, unemployed boyfriend asks to move in with her.

A divorced Jewish woman sues her Christian ex-husband for sole custody of their 6-year-old daughter so she can raise her in the Jewish faith only.

Lynn helps a woman fight manslaughter charges after her 8-year-old son accidentally shoots and kills his older brother with her handgun. Complicating things further, is the boy's father who is now suing for sole custody of his son.

A gay man, who recently split from his domestic partner of 12 years, fights for custody of their two adopted children. Also, a 55-year-old woman sues her estranged father for child support because he abandoned her when she was very young.

A woman abandons her infant by leaving the baby at the door of Lynn's firm and then asks Lynn to defend her; a foster child whom Danni once fought for returns to ask her to keep her promise to become his foster mother.

A woman seeks Lynn's help when her Native American ex-husband kidnaps their children and seeks refuge at a nearby reservation where Federal laws do not apply; Danni moves forward in her efforts to adopt a boy.

Randi is devastated when her estranged daughter is killed by her son-in-law, and she fights for custody of her 2-year-old granddaughter; Rex defends a music star who opened a drug-treatment center in her Beverly Hills home against the objections of her neighbors; Danni learns that one of her partners wrote a negative letter about her saying that she wasn't fit to be a foster parent.

Lynn appeals the death-row sentence of a teenager, convicted of a school shooting five years ago, who is only days away from being executed.

Lynn attempts to help a runaway girl who has turned to prostitution get off the streets; a divorced couple fight in court over who will have access to their frozen embryos; and Randi can't get Annie to stop crying and turns to an unlikely source for help.

The firm moves to Venice Beach and hires two new associates. Also, Lynn fights for a cancer patient's right to take unapproved medication; Joe realizes he's overworked and hands off a custody case to another lawyer, which leads to tragedy; and Danni searches for Raphael after he runs away from his foster home.

Randi represents a woman fighting to regain custody of her two children who were taken from her while she was in prison; Danni finds Raphael and tries once more to adopt him; Joe angers everyone with the amount of pro bono cases he's taken on.

Lynn defends a 14-year-old girl accused of spray painting hate messages on a building; Emily represents parents who want to keep their teen daughter with cerebral palsy out of high school and keep her in a special-education facility against the girl's wishes; Joe tries to help an abused woman from being deported because he believes her violent husband will kill her if she returns to her homeland.

Naoise defends a 15-year-old boy accused of taking violent measures to defend his neighborhood from drug dealers and prostitutes; Joe tries to help a 16-year-old orphan gain custody of his two younger siblings.

Joe is badly burned when he rescues a 15-year-old from a house fire that the teen accidentally started when he tried to make his own drugs from a book he purchased. Rex then attempts to sue the book's publisher.

Lynn intervenes when 13 children from one family are removed from their home after a case worker declares that the parents can't take care of them all; Randi reluctantly helps a man who wants his ex-wife to continue making large child support payments despite the fact that she plans to quit her job to have another baby.

A friend reveals to Lynn that he cheated on his wife and now he wants Lynn to represent him in a paternity suit; a mother is charged with child abuse after she spanks her son in a dressing room.

An Arab-American who works for the Department of Transportation's hazardous-materials division is arrested for espionage after he takes home a computer disk that contains classified information. But Joe argues that he's being targeted simply because he's an Arab.

Randi defends a woman whose children died from heat exposure while locked in a car; Joe helps a mom whose kids were taken away because she left them home alone while she worked; Lynn and Rex consider having an affair.

Emily aids a woman who wants a divorce on the grounds that her husband committed adultery by carrying on a relationship with a woman over the Internet; Lynn defends a 40-year-old friend who is arrested for having sex with a 15-year-old boy; Randi starts dating a judge and then discovers he has a secret past that could end his career.

A man sues his ex-wife for fraud when he learns the two boys he raised are not his biological sons; divorcing parents argue over who will get their son on Christmas day; a tall, skinny man sues a department store after the owner refuses to hire him as an elf.

Rex represents a bipolar 8-year-old boy who was given up by his adoptive parents because of his violent outbursts; Lynn and Naoise assist a priest in his efforts to gain custody of a son he never knew existed until the boy's mother died.

Naoise is seriously wounded when she gets caught in a shoot-out between rival gangs and Lynn sues the police department for failing to respond quickly; Viveca helps an 85-year-old grandmother try to gain custody of her grandson.

A woman who is only 23 weeks pregnant wants doctors to induce labor so stem cells from her baby can be used to save her 8-year-old son, who's dying from aplastic anemia. But the doctors are hesitant because the infant will likely die.

Lynn represents a deadbeat dad who is thrown into jail after a judge learns that his wife is pregnant (because fathering another child is a violation of his parole); Viveca decides whether she's going to have Joe's baby.

Vivica quits the firm in order to oppose Joe in court over a case involving standardized tests for teachers; Rex and Lynn represent a 12-year-old genius who wants the right to leave home to accept a scholarship at M.I.T.

The parents of a girl involved in a cult ask Lynn to help them stop a mass wedding in which their daughter is to be married to a stranger; Joe fights a restraining order that prevents him from seeing an 8-year-old boy he mentored while the kid's dad was in prison.

Lynn reluctantly represents a polygamist with five wives who is fighting a former spouse for custody of their two children; Randi helps a couple battle an HMO that refuses to pay for an expensive treatment that their dying son needs.

An 18-year-old black honors student sues a topflight college for discrimination when he's refused admission, even though he is academically qualified; one of Rex's friends is accused of raping a co-worker, but he claims the sex was consensual; and Emily dates a man she met on the Internet.

Randi defends her cousin (Delta Burke), who is accused of abusing her elderly mother; Joe aids a 16-year-old father's fight for custody of his infant daughter; Cassie is suspended from school for writing an article condemning the school for creating a day-care facility for the kids of unwed teens.

In the series finale, a young woman who promised to give her newborn to an adopting couple reneges on the agreement after giving birth; a bride refuses to sign a prenuptial agreement just minutes before her wedding; Lynn and Rex fly to Nevada in an attempt to have their marriage annulled; Randi searches for a dying client's lost love.