Daniel: You need a partner, Dad. No one is as committed to this firm or you or everything you built as I am.
Harry: Leave it with me. I’ll consider it.

Adoption was a big decision. Unadopting is a big decision too.

Abby

Lucy: Every other major life decision you can back out of—sell a house, get divorced. But a baby, you’re in it for life.
Harry: I don’t know, are you? They thought they were getting a healthy kid. They were sold a false bill of goods.
Jerri: We’re not talking about a defective blender, Harry. This is a baby.

What good is honoring a commitment for the sake of commitment if they can see it’s not going to work?

Daniel

Jane, after everything he’s done I wouldn’t want anything to do with either. But you need to think of Kirin. It’s going to be brutally expensive raising him in the city, especially if you take extended time off for his medical care.

Abby

How easy do you think it’s going to be to find two perfect parents to care for a baby as sick as Kirin, parents as devoted as she is?

Abby

Daniel, meet them before the wedding. You know you’re not just marrying Danielle, right? It’s a package deal.

Lucy

It always feels like that in the early days, but I built a practice of unhappily ever after.

Harry

Do you have a solution, Dad? Mom is happy. I get that you’re dealing with a lot, but you don’t think has been hard on me too. I’m losing my mother.

Miriam

She really is her father’s daughter.

Jerri

Daniel: Imagine 30 years of marriage, and this is how it ends. The wife has no idea who you are.
Abby: That’s the deal. In sickness and in health until death do you part.

Miriam: I heard you’re a lawyer now.
Daniel: Yep.
Miriam: Well, what are you doing here?
Ira: Daniel’s here for me, Miriam.

Family Law Quotes

Which mom?

All the kids

Abigail: Are we done?
Harry: Isn’t there something you’d like to say to me first?
Abigail: No, not that I can think of.
Harry: No other lawyer in town would touch you, not even your old firm.
Abigail: What do you want me to say?
Harry: How about thank you, Dad?