I had the same, miserable experience after 21 years with ex hubby. Legal and Justice are NOT interchangeable.
I submitted a Pleading to Change Judge of Right, and of course, she denied it. She is still on the bench and is a nasty, incompetant Judge. (AZ rotates the Judges every few years to another Court type, ex Criminal, Family, Civil, Probate, Juvenile). I watched her excapades and had personal knowledge of a couple trials that should have been slam dunks for the prosecution and ended up in mistrials.
Oliver Wendell Holmes:
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.