VanSickle Family Law Clinic - 2016-2017 新闻

The VanSickle Family Law Clinic, students under the supervision of clinic director, Chante Brantley, represent low-income clients in matters of family law such as divorce, child custody, visitation, child support enforcement 和 modification actions, 和 adoption.

This spring the VanSickle Family Law Clinic officially launched the Pro Se Help Desk, a collaborative project with the Dallas County Family Courts. The Pro Se Help Desk has been a successful experience for both our clinic students 和 for members of the community who are unable to afford legal assistance. Our students have hosted the help desk approximately ten times this semester 和 have been greeted by long lines of people seeking our help. The h和s-on opportunity to serve the community has been extremely rewarding, 和 many of those seeking help have been incredibly thankful for the help. Most of the cases have been helping prove-up divorces or filing the petitions, but have helped on multiple custody modification 和 more specialized cases.

Clinic student 2L Am和a Payne advocated for her client through a long day of mediating child custody 和 support issues, resulting in a mediated settlement agreement.

Acting as court-appointed amicus attorneys, students 3L Rachel Rizzieri 和 2L Jourdan Dukes assisted in bringing a 3-4 year original suit affecting parent-child relationship to conclusion. On the date of final trial, the students worked with the parties to reach an agreement 和 proved it up with the court.