Sentences with phrase «providing guardian ad»

Direct legal assistance involves such services as representation, interviewing prospective clients, participation in advice clinics, co-counseling and mentoring on pro bono cases, serving as a mediator or arbitrator, and providing guardian ad litem services.

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The Ohio Supreme Court's Children and Families Section is also working on building capacity among guardians ad litem, custody evaluators, and other professionals to provide richer and more robust information to courts.

Waite LJ (at 287) said wardship was unnecessary: «Rule 9.2 A (1)[now FPR 2010, r 16.6 (3)-RSB- gives C exactly the same rights in wardship as she enjoys in proceedings under CA 1989, Pt 2... If, therefore, the judge believed that wardship provided a means of requiring C to accept a guardian ad litem, he was mistaken.

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Conceivably one could question the guardian ad litem (at least in a custody case) regarding discussions the guardian may have had, or not had, with witnesses who provided damaging affidavits against one's client but who failed to testify at trial.

She is a volunteer guardian ad litem with the Seminole County Guardian Ad Litem program and provides training for volunteer guardianad litem with the Seminole County Guardian Ad Litem program and provides training for volunteer guardianAd Litem program and provides training for volunteer guardians.

Engaging Noncustodial Fathers in Child Welfare Cases: A Guide for Children's Attorneys and Lawyer Guardians ad Litem (PDF - 4,198 KB) Pilnik & Kendall (2010) American Humane, American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, & National Quality Improvement Center on Non-Resident Fathers and the Child Welfare System Provides tips on how to promote father engagement, including its importance and barriers.

Maine law provides for appointment of a guardian ad litem, commonly referred to as GAL, in court cases where the...

Further, as respecting possible modification, because of past issues of the defendant failing to comply with orders of the court; providing token compliance with orders of the court while ignoring the spirit and intent of the orders (including the orders dated December 1, 2010); the defendant's lengthy pattern of contemptuous conduct; the expenses and financial waste caused by the defendant; the substantial financial drain on the resources of the plaintiff and the guardian ad litem caused by the defendant; the pattern of parental alienation; prior false reports of abuse and / or neglect to governmental entities; and the need for repose on the part of the minor child, it is anticipated that in addition to satisfaction of the foregoing conditions, no modification motion is permitted to be filed by defendant regarding the sole physical and / or sole legal custody arrangements, except in the case of the plaintiff's total and permanent disability as determined by the Social Security Administration, unless the following conditions are satisfied...» Eisenlohr v. Eisenlohr, 2011 WL 1566201 at * 4 (Conn.Super.).

They can and do function as shadow witnesses ex parte, to provide the judge (directly as well as indirectly through guardians ad litem, other witnesses, and even via support to one of the parties) with information, evidence and innuendo.

Schwartz proposes the appointment of a guardian ad litem as a family mediator that can protect the interests of the children, promote the objectives of joint custody, and provide the courts with a means of evaluating joint custody awards.