Webinar Registration: CUSTODY FOR ABUSED IMMIGRANTS: TIPS, TOOLS AND BEST PRACTICES
Description of webinar:
Parents have a constitutional right in the care and custody of their children without regard to the parent’s or the child’s immigration status. Despite this, perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence against immigrant victims with whom they share children, commonly raise immigration status related issues in custody litigation. Abusers often provide the court with legally incorrect information about immigration law and how immigration law applies to the victim and the parties’ children. This webinar will provide judges, attorneys and advocates with legally correct information about the immigration relief available to battered immigrants and abused children. The webinar will discuss the most common immigration status related myths that are raised by parties in contested custody cases and will provide up to date immigration law information and best practices of applying state best interests of the child laws in custody cases involving battered immigrants and their children.
Parents have a constitutional right in the care and custody of their children without regard to the parent’s or the child’s immigration status. Despite this, perpetrators of domestic and sexual violence against immigrant victims with whom they share children, commonly raise immigration status related issues in custody litigation. Abusers often provide the court with legally incorrect information about immigration law and how immigration law applies to the victim and the parties’ children. This webinar will provide judges, attorneys and advocates with legally correct information about the immigration relief available to battered immigrants and abused children. The webinar will discuss the most common immigration status related myths that are raised by parties in contested custody cases and will provide up to date immigration law information and best practices of applying state best interests of the child laws in custody cases involving battered immigrants and their children.
Presenters:
· Leslye Orloff, Director, National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP), American University Washington College of Law
· Judge Rosemary Collins, 17th Judicial Circuit Court, Domestic Violence Coordinated Courts (DVCC), Rockford, Illinois
· Judge Mary Weir, 16th Judicial Circuit Court, Jackson County, Missouri
Target Audience:
This webinar is designed for advocates, attorneys, and others who are new to or would like to learn up-to-date information on the legal rights of abused immigrant parents in state court custody proceedings.
This webinar is designed for advocates, attorneys, and others who are new to or would like to learn up-to-date information on the legal rights of abused immigrant parents in state court custody proceedings.
Date: Thursday, November 15, 2018
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST
If you need any help using this registration page or wish to fill the form out over the phone, please call (202)274-4457 or email info@niwap.org.
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST
If you need any help using this registration page or wish to fill the form out over the phone, please call (202)274-4457 or email info@niwap.org.