Litigiousness

Duties of Bahá'ís to humanity are to sacred to spend precious time in (unnecessary) litigation

"He does not want the friends to form the habit of taking up a kind of Baha'i litigation against each other. Their duties to humanity are too sacred and urgent in these days, when the Cause is struggling to spread and assert its independence, for them to spend their precious time, and his precious time, in this way. Ask them, therefore, to unite, forget the past, and serve as never before."

(On behalf of Shoghi Effendi, dated July 22, 1947, in Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand, p. 69)

Preference for divorced matters to be resolved by Assembly over civil litigation

"It is the responsibility of the Assembly to assist the divorced couple to arrive at an amicable settlement of their financial affairs and arrangement for the custody and support of the children rather than let these matters be a subject of litigation in the civil courts. If the Assembly is unable to bring the couple to an agreement on such matters then their only recourse is to the civil court."

(Letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice, dated June 20, 1977, in Developing Distinctive Bahá'í Communities, no. 17.18-17.19)