Child Advocacy Training

Catalog description

Lawyers who represent children in any type of custody proceeding, child in need of care, divorce, paternity or adoption, face special challenges. The course will include: interviewing children; understanding capacity issues; the roles and ethical obligations of the child's attorney, best interests attorney and other representatives for the child in litigation; the roles of other professionals - mental health professionals, custody evaluations; role of the child's lawyer in alternative dispute resolution; and cultural sensitivity. There will also be an advocacy component. Prerequisite(s): None. Satisfies skills requirement. Credit/No Credit.