Practicing social workers face many challenges at Family Dispute Settlement Offices in family courts across Egypt. One of the most important barriers, as previous studies with Western populations have shown, is client resistance to change. The current study explores this professional practice barrier in social work within an Arab environment. The purpose of this study is to identify the patterns of client resistance at family court in Assiut city Egypt. The sample of this study consists of 30 social workers, 20 male, and 10 female, ages 20 through 49 years. Findings indicate that these social workers faced 25 patterns of resistance in family court. Finally, strategies for helping social workers deal with client resistance in family court in Egypt are suggested.