Hon. Mark A. TalamantesJudgeSuperior CourtMarin
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| Comment # | Occupation | Rating | Comments | Date & Time | Actions |
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| 134533 | Other | View Details | [Redacted by Ed.] This man is not example to his own family to be a judge. man without a father and not even a father of his own dictating american citizens how live as family. He testified in court that it is okay for wife to ...Read More | 11/19/2025 02:34 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 134480 | Other | View Details | Truly terrible judge. His moral compass is broken. Misogynistic and abuses his power. May karma strike him down. | 11/13/2025 10:39 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 133989 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Mark Talamantes, in my opinion, [Redacted by Ed.] disregards the law and our constitutional rights, [Redacted by Ed.] . I was forced to accept a divorce from a bigamous wife of Latin descent who was having an affair outside our m...Read More | 09/16/2025 08:44 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 133718 | Litigant | View Details | My name is Lisa Marie Deane. I am a direct victim of Superior Court of California’s Judge Mark Andrew Telemantes. If you yourself or someone you know has - in any capacity; big or small; professional or litigation; been a victim o...Read More | 07/30/2025 03:43 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 131146 | Other | No Rating | You people need to understand. Mark Talamantes is a Com Artist. He corrupts sheriffs, DA, Bar Assoc., Center of Domestic Peace, Canal Alliance. Leading and Falsifying claims with restraining orders and break families apart to stea...Read More | 02/20/2025 02:25 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 130049 | Other | No Rating | this judge is an abysmal miscarriage of justice and emotionally unhinged. he pays no attention to law, he is disrespectful and rude and he hold no integrity or merit. he is mysogynistic and racist, at best. | 12/17/2024 03:43 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 130047 | Other | No Rating | this judge is a miscarriage of integrity and justice. his inability to "serve" based on upholding the law is putrid. what an abysmal mistake, particularly when people (our children) are involved. he is better fitted to serve time ...Read More | 12/17/2024 02:46 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 130002 | Civil Litigation - Private | No Rating | He should be the Coroner. He should not be let loose on the living... | 12/13/2024 10:09 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 130000 | Litigant | No Rating | I am not surprised to see all the comments below - Talamantes is a judge who does not have the temperament nor should this political appointee ever have been let loose on population of Marin. That said - please file an objective c...Read More | 12/13/2024 06:48 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 128425 | Other | No Rating | This judge has a serious problem with power tripping. He is condescending and makes decisions based on his own interest and does not listen to the petitioners. It seems like he gets joy out of continuing cases unnecessarily and in...Read More | 08/26/2024 03:51 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 126866 | Other | No Rating | [Redacted by Ed.] This guy deserves jail. We need to get together and file a Class Action to get his out of the judicial perfomance | 05/16/2024 12:16 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 119576 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | He makes an attempt to have families consider resolving differences - but he makes decisions that seem to prolong litigation. Lawyers make arguments that ought to have some consideration but he mostly listens to ill-prepared paren...Read More | 07/20/2023 04:35 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 116936 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Where is the Honor of somneone who makes profit off of undocumented workers and false immigration claim support and deportation. Judge Talamentes deliberately lied to protect wrongdoers, bigamy and improper governmental and public...Read More | 03/24/2023 01:55 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 116929 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Talamantes perverts justice and should not be a judge. I welcome anyone and everyone to reach out to me. I'd love to share notes and hear your story. Maybe we can work together to make something happen. | 03/23/2023 02:09 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 116799 | Court Staff | No Rating | I already have rated this incompetent judge before, but our family is still suffering from his mal-administration of judgment. It is really appalling that the State or whoever is in charge, allows this awful man to continue makin...Read More | 03/16/2023 03:17 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 113719 | Litigant | No Rating | Hi all, Thank you to whomever set up this site! It feels like a support group for victims of this "judge", makes me feel better that there are others out there who have gone through what I have. My case was a small claims case ...Read More | 12/16/2022 11:17 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 112168 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | As an attorney, it is difficult to sit in his court room and listen to the gross miscarriage of justice. It's like the protections of the law and Constitution have gone completely out the window, and he just makes up his own rule...Read More | 12/03/2022 08:31 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 110924 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | This judge is lazy, rude, and incompetent. He doesn’t follow the law and does not even bother to read submissions. He is bias and lacks knowledge of basic facts in a case which he is hearing. Or really not hearing since again he d...Read More | 10/13/2022 06:58 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 110618 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | No Rating | Don't waste your time and hopes complaining to the Commission on Judicial Performance. They are merely a sham to make you think you live in a country governed by laws. | 09/30/2022 12:20 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 110615 | Other | No Rating | ATTENTION TO ALL: File your complaint with: State of California COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL PERFORMANCE 455 Golden Gate Avenue, Suite 14400 San Francisco, California 94102 You can type and send complaint on line, or You may fax a...Read More | 09/30/2022 03:50 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 105125 | Litigant | No Rating | It is disgraceful and beyond disgusting that no one in the California judicial system has the balls and will to discipline and remove Judge Talamantes for his protection of child abusers and child sexual abusers. | 05/27/2022 01:13 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 104630 | Litigant | No Rating | I am looking to file a complaint against this judge and has plenty of relevant material to perhaps get him disbarred as it is all documented!!! ***** BUT ***** I need help putting it all together as there is no guidance .....so ...Read More | 05/02/2022 06:04 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 103571 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | not prepared, biased towards men, pays no attention, makes stupid statements, is lazy, unintelligent, not fit to be even a janitor! | 03/19/2022 04:49 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 103570 | Court Staff | No Rating | why is this man still on the bench making important family decisions. I am a court reporter with 40 plus experience. He is the absolute worst judge I have ever encountered in my professional life. Shame on the Marin County court f...Read More | 03/19/2022 04:45 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 103547 | Other | No Rating | Hon. M.A. Talamantes absolutely skewered a woman in court today who was seeking increased visitation with her daughter. He stated that if the daughter were to commit suicide it would be solely the fault of the woman/mother. He non...Read More | 03/19/2022 02:43 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 103239 | Criminal Defense Lawyer | View Details | Most horrible judge I ever encountered in my life as a court reporter and civilian | 03/01/2022 07:48 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 103228 | Litigant | No Rating | I thought that he was in jail. He should be in jail. | 03/01/2022 06:27 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 102843 | Litigant | No Rating | Is that fool Talamantes still on the bench? Will be filing my complaint soon. Thanks for the direction. Can't Superior Court management do some quality control on their appointees? | 02/12/2022 12:27 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 79707 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I can’t believe what I just witnessed and that this completely incompetent judge is behind the bench. He is completely arbitrary and basically clueless about people and pretty unhinged. He gives the litigants before him ridiculous...Read More | 12/03/2019 02:46 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 78714 | Other | No Rating | Judge Talamantes is the worst judge. He's unprepared, doesn't review the files submitted, completely unfair. My abuser received a restraining order against me based on an email I sent to him. Talamantes said "that was mean" and to...Read More | 11/06/2019 11:27 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 76706 | Litigant | No Rating | HE IS HORRIBLE SHOULD HAV BEEN A PASTRY CHEF | 09/26/2019 10:38 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 66973 | Other | No Rating | he should be thrown out of the system. he is siding. he is in the parents best interest not the Childs | 03/19/2019 09:54 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 65889 | Other | No Rating | He's horrible as a judge! I have set in on 3 cases, so disappointing. This judge is never prepared, ignores an abundant factual details on the cases, always favors the female and all the staff knows it. I recently watch him give b...Read More | 02/26/2019 05:11 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 65769 | Other | No Rating | A breath of fresh air to the Marin County Family Court. | 02/25/2019 01:40 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 65767 | Litigant | No Rating | Judge Talamantes is a breath of fresh air. He is logical and practical...as all Judge's should be. I wish ALL Marin County Family Court Judge's were as common-sense orientated as he is. PS He was not my Judge for my family Court...Read More | 02/25/2019 01:38 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 62472 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Don't just take this from me, the rumors are true. Talamantes is not level headed and a crap shoot who will rule based on a personal, rather than legal, standpoint. Aside from ruling on law, a judge is a model that should show res...Read More | 12/07/2018 09:16 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 60617 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Notwithstanding his time on the bench, this jurist apparently lacks the minimum qualifications to do the job. He has been assigned to the Family Law division after being distinguished as the only judge ever to merit a blanket disq...Read More | 10/16/2018 04:15 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 55965 | Other | No Rating | He doesn't read the responses carefully, and ignores as much evidence as possible to support his decision that was made up before he hears the case! Soft spoken but very unfair! Fathers beware! | 05/13/2018 02:00 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 55493 | Litigant | No Rating | Did not read my response, filed on time. Blew off suggestions for a mediator and family counselor. Used a one column ledger to weigh allegations when three were necessary. And made a fateful decision for someone who was not presen...Read More | 04/29/2018 01:06 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 55361 | Other | No Rating | Talamantes clearly lacks any knowledge when it comes to family law and previous rulings of the appellate court. He was raised by a single mother and takes his "daddy issues" out on fathers in the courtroom. His extreme bias prohib...Read More | 04/24/2018 02:07 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 53216 | Other | No Rating | Judge Talamantes is a horrible addition to Marin county courts. He is most often unprepared and confuses cases. He is one sided and fails to hear each side before ruling. It is often clear he has made up his mind before hearing an...Read More | 12/20/2017 10:01 PM | Contact reviewer |
| 41035 | Litigant | No Rating | Horrible judge. Ignores the law. Being in his court is like being in a Central American dictatorship where the judge acts like a dictator not a judge. Where the whims of the judge trump rule of law. Law be damned. Facts be damned. | 02/23/2016 01:56 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 39858 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | I really like the new probate judge. A strong addition to the Marin bench. Smart, prepared. And based on the surprising comments here, it would appear he's doing his job. A keeper for sure. | 12/31/2015 12:20 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 39008 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Judge Talamante’s behavior on the bench has raised serious questions concerning his role as a judge and exhibits a pattern of behavior that indicates an extremely blatant courtroom bias against pro se litigants. The record repea...Read More | 11/20/2015 12:55 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 35198 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Horrible judge. Very limited ability. Does not grasp or comprehend issues. Petty, arbitrary and capricious. Worst judge imaginable. Should not be a judge. | 06/05/2015 09:25 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 31770 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | Clearly Judge Talamantes was a former civil litigator. Well versed on civil procedure and can handle complex matters. Trial was efficient. Good with the jury. Well prepared and on top of it. Mild-mannered. | 12/19/2014 08:34 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 31300 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | A comfortable courtroom with the opportunity to be heard. Didn't get everything I wanted, but got a fair shake. Well prepared - he knew my case, facts and the law. Pushes settlement. | 11/27/2014 11:42 AM | Contact reviewer |
| 29377 | Civil Litigation - Private | View Details | run the other way. unprepared, uninformed and does not bother to be, do not expect hard decisions or his time. 170.6. what a disappointment, others are better. | 09/10/2014 03:04 PM | Contact reviewer |
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