While mediation offers many parents an alternative to formal and often adversarial court processes, they may also present serious safety and parenting consequences for domestic violence survivors and their children. The Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody offers this webinar to help advocates orient survivors to common custody mediation processes, make them aware of risks that mediation may pose, and suggest tangible ways to help survivors prepare for the mediation.
This webinar, taught by NCJFCJ Past President Judge R. Michael Key, will assist juvenile and family courts in understanding the importance of examining reasonable efforts during the current pandemic. The webinar will cover why a…
Webinar Faculty: The Honorable Rosa Figarola, Children’s Courthouse and Juvenile Justice Center, Miami, FL Diane Balkin, JD, Animal Legal Defense Fund Juvenile and family court judges are called on to address and prevent harm by…
Webinar Faculty: The Honorable John Romero, Jr., Children’s Court, Albuquerque NM, NCJFCJ past president Diane Balkin, JD, Animal Legal Defense Fund Kathleen Wood, JD, Animal Legal Defense Fund Juvenile and family court judges are called…