Sentences with phrase «family law system services»

Recent reports, including those by the Family Law Council and indigenous consultant Stephen Ralph, suggest that family law system services are under - utilised by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families for a number of reasons including:

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«We share the concerns of community members, law enforcement officials and youth facility staff that current policies at the Office of Child and Family Services, including the closure of 14 youth facilities, are making a bad situation worse in the juvenile justice system,» said CSEA President Danny Donohue.

States and local governments should facilitate community partnerships among families, students, law enforcement agencies, education systems, mental health and substance abuse service systems, family - based mental health service systems, government agencies, health care service systems, and other community - based systems.

Allocations include: nearly $ 4.8 million in additional annual funding for legal aid, with a focus on indigenous and family law services; $ 3.8 million per year to fund expansion of Parents Legal Centres; $ 5 million more per year for sheriff services and court staff to help reduce delays in the court system; and an additional $ 3.3 million annually for government initiatives related to family dispute resolution services and increasing digital access to justice services.

«No matter how much we reform our family law and criminal justice systems — and heaven knows they need substantial reform — the government can't expect LSS to switch from a staff lawyer service model to a private lawyer service model without substantially incentivizing the private bar to take on legal aid files.»

A Primer on Special Needs and the Law - A «blawg» dedicated to providing practical advice to assist individuals with special needs and their family members in Nova Scotia with navigating the educational and community services systems.

Through the Legal Services Society, funded by the government, the province also provided a family law line and extended duty counsel to allow the public to access the system and secure advice to resolve disputes in family law.

In Other News, the Law Society of Ontario opens the door for family services from paralegals, the Ontario government makes updates to the justice system, and the Quebec ban on face coverings is challenged and stayed.

Better to increase the attractiveness of legal services by enabling lawyers to provide related services accompanying their legal services, e.g., family law lawyers providing financial planning advice, and law firms providing accounting and tax advisory work, and litigation lawyers working with experts who improve and maintain their clients» electronic records management systems, because records are the most frequently used kind of evidence and are completely dependent on their records management systems for everything, particularly their «integrity» （ which is what the electronic records provisions of the Evidence Acts require be proved for admissibility; e.g., section 31.2 （ 1 ） （ a ） of the Canada Evidence Act - see: Ken Chasse, «Electronic Records as Evidence,» and the other «records as evidence» articles on «my SSRN authors page, for free download ） 。

, offers mediation services for spouses who wish to avoid the family law court system.

At Feldstein Family Law Group, we understand that the expense associated with comprehensive legal services can be prohibitive to many, but we also understand that the legal system can be quite confusing and daunting to face entirely on your own.

Nevertheless, it might be a valuable exercise for governments and court services agencies to consider what if any aspects of the family law disputes that clog our court systems are amenable to automation or, at the very least, the imposition of greater certainty.

Fostering Court Improvement Fostering Results, ABA Center on Children and the Law, National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues, & Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic (2008) Aims to link States so that they can open new, collaborative dialog with all stakeholders in their child welfare systems through the use of data and data analysis, including Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System data housed and maintained by the child and family services agency of each State.

This factsheet discusses laws that require child welfare agencies to make reasonable efforts to provide services that will help families remedy the conditions that brought the child and family into the child welfare system.

Demand for unbundled services is likely to increase as individuals look for affordable ways to access the legal system, Toronto - area family lawyer Andrew Feldstein says in Law... Read more

At Main Line Family Law Center, clients are always subject to a flat fee rate for all included services, rather than the private attorney hourly rate system, so costs are contained and uncertainty of divorce is minimized.

We are very active in the area of family relationship services through Family Relationship Centres (FRCs), established by the Australian Government as part of reform of the family law system infamily relationship services through Family Relationship Centres (FRCs), established by the Australian Government as part of reform of the family law system inFamily Relationship Centres (FRCs), established by the Australian Government as part of reform of the family law system infamily law system in 2005.

Referring to the Canada Court Watch Project [www.canadacourtwatch.com] as a «father's rights group», Epstein and Madsen (This Week in Family Law FAMLNWS 2007, 14 Jan. 2007 --(at 2007 CarswellOnt 1267 — in Westlaw Canada — a closed subscriber only service, sorry) state: «In our view [Canada Court Watch Project] are a dangerous group which does great damage to the civil justice system and the rights of children.

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Recognizing the value of the concept and the need to bring uniformity and guidance to it, a group of participants in an interdisciplinary international conference sponsored by the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association recommended that «professionals trained to manage chronic child - related disputes be provided as a service within the court system» (AFCC Task Force on Parenting Coordination, 2003).

Members of individual state chapters, such as the Texas Chapter of the AFCC, are the association and one another's valuable resources in sharing information, experiences and collectively searching for new ways to improve the quality of care and service for the men, women and families experiencing the family law system, those who want options in addition to traditional litigation.

This includes promoting and supporting a system of services, laws, practices, and attitudes that supports families by enabling them to provide their children with a safe, healthy, and nurturing childhood.

The Family Court Services department is under California's Superior Court system and governed according to the state's law (Section 3170 of the Family Code).

The RAP outlines real and practical measures to achieve reconciliation, build stronger relations with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients with better access to justice and the family law system through tailored services and procedures.

In considering the engagement of Indigenous families in the family law system, there is a considerable body of work that deals with family dispute resolution services and how these services may best work to assist Indigenous people to resolve disputes without the involvement of the court system.

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Indigenous communities experience multiple barriers when trying to access the Court including literacy and language barriers, a lack of understanding about the family law system and a lack of service access for communities in regional and remote areas.

Given the unique needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people accessing the family law system, it was identified that Child Dispute Services should have a staff member at each family law registry trained in conducting culturally sensitive assessments.

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Given the importance of such services in reducing the prospect of Indigenous people becoming involved in family law litigation, and the crucial role these services play in the family law system, it is of the utmost importance that such services are demonstrably effective in providing dispute resolution services.

Earlier this month, the Family First Prevention Services Act became law, ushering in significant changes to the way that the federal government funds child welfare systems.

I have spoken with Lee a number of times about the present and future of family law, and from my point of view he is truly a visionary when it comes to using technology, the Internet, social media, and implementing strategies and systems such as flat fees for service, to build his practice.

The Family Violence Prevention Legal Services have shown that they are necessary, and were heavily quoted in the Family Law Council's Improving the Family Law System for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Clients, a report to the Attorney General / Family Law Council, in February 2012.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) The NCTSN works to serves the nation's traumatized children and their families by raising public awareness of the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress on the safety and healthy development of America's children and youth; advancing a broad range of effective services and interventions by creating trauma - informed developmentally and culturally appropriate programs that improve the standard of care; working with established systems of care including the health, mental health, education, law enforcement, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military family service systems to ensure that there is a comprehensive trauma - informed continuum of accessible care; and fostering a community dedicated to collaboration within and beyond the NCTSN to ensure that widely shared knowledge and skills become a sustainable national resource.

Additionally, Schedule IV of the Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Act 2007 (Cth), modifies the existing permit system for Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory set out by the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 (Cth) ALRA by giving the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly the power to make laws authorising entry onto Aboriginal land.

11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Joe Stallard, VP of Human Resources, Sewell Automotive Companies «Giving Extraordinary Customer Service, No Matter What You Do» Whether a lawyer, mental health provider or a judge working in the family law system, it requires the ability to work with people who may not be in the best place or time in their lives.