The profitability of domestic relations law

Along this same vein of thought, is there a strong business justification to ever practice in the domestic relations field? Note from the last post, this is currently our largest practice area. But, everything one reads about lawyer profitability says that family law is the worst area for profitability. You never see the big firms practicing family law...and this is the reason right? I certainly know about the struggles to get fees paid in these sorts of cases.

With us there's the issue of do we want to let go of this "branch" before we have another profitable area set-up. And I can think of many non-monetary reasons to be in this practice area, but is there ever a good business reason to do it? How can we make family law work from a business standpoint?