Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Family Court Review
Publication Date
10-2012
DOI
10.1111/j.1744-1617.2012.01483.x
Abstract
The involvement of family courts in the lives of youth and families creates significant opportunities for advocates to assist their clients with immigration-related issues. Informed and effective advocacy on these issues in family court can make lifechanging, and even life-saving, differences for immigrants. More specifically, immigration issues are germane to family court because certain vital avenues of immigration relief available to survivors of abuse, neglect, abandonment, and other forms of family crisis explicitly depend on findings, orders, and certifications that are issued in the context of family court proceedings. After describing these forms of relief, and the family court’s role in immigrants’ access to them, this essay analyzes how ethical mandates related to client counseling, representational goals, and competence affirmatively require family court practitioners to provide advice and advocacy related to these collateral benefits to family court proceedings.
Recommended Citation
Theo Liebmann,
Ethical Advocacy for Immigrant Survivors of Family Crisis, 50 Fam. Ct. Rev. 650
(2012)
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/faculty_scholarship/742
Comments
This is the pre-publication version of the following article:
T. Liebmann, Ethical Advocacy for Immigrant Survivors of Family Crisis, Family Court Review, 50 (2012), pp. 650-661, 10.1111/j.1744-1617.2012.01483.x
It has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2012.01483.x