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As divorce lawyers, we are intimately aware of the overlapping relationship between psychology and family law. In certain cases, we feel that we are practicing more psychology than law. At the same time, it is also not uncommon for clients who are in counseling to report discussions with a therapist which dangerously tread on the line of practicing law without a license - or even cross the line. Yet, until recently, it was rare that family- law legal professionals worked in tandem, or even communicated, with mental health professionals.
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The following article was originally published in the Wisconsin Law Journal, another Dolan Media-owned publication. MILWAUKEE - As divorce lawyers, we are intimately aware of the overlapping relationship between psychology and family law.
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Gov. Bill Ritter this week appointed El Paso County Magistrate Scott Sells to be the county's newest district court judge. Sells, 52, has served as magistrate since 1996, where he handles more than 50 percent of the county's family law cases, such as juvenile delinquency and child support.
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[...] after losing a docket fight in a federal appellate court, the State of Connecticut alone in 2004 unsealed more man 10,000 case files on its secret docket, most of which dealt with divorce or family law cases involving public officials and celebrities, including Clarence demons, Bruce Springsteen's saxophonist. [...] a 2003 Reporters Committee survey found that most district courts surveyed admitted to having secret civil cases pending, though "[m]any federal courts would not say how many cases they had, and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts does not monitor the number of secret cases filed in federal courts across the country." According to Doe's attorney, Gary M. Davis of Pittsburgh, Doe informed the court that she had no objection to releasing the docket providing h...
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LOS ANGELES -- The nation's largest court system is in the midst of a painful budget crisis that has shut down courtrooms and disrupted everything from divorce and custody proceedings to traffic ticket disputes. The Los Angeles court system has already closed 17 courtrooms and another 50 will be shut down come September unless something is done to find more money. The judge who presides over the system predicts chaos and an unprecedented logjam of civil and family law cases in the worst-case scenario.
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Beginning Nov. 3, some divorce trials and child custody matters will be heard in Clark County's new Family Law Annex, Superior Court Administrator Jeff Amram said Monday. Last year, county commissioners agreed to lease 14,000 square feet two blocks south of the Clark County Courthouse to ease the space crunch at the courthouse, where judges outnumber courtrooms.
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While any non-lawyer attempting to litigate in the court system on their own is likely to get lost, it's particularly likely in complex family-law cases. Enter the "judicare" grant program, which provides funding to private attorneys to represent family-law litigants who can't afford legal counsel.
