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Thursday November 10
2016
 Interstate Issues in Article 10 Cases

This workshop will explore various aspects of interstate issues that arise in Article 10 cases.  We will start by looking at cases where our clients live in another state but a case is filed in New York and discuss New York’s exercise of emergency jurisdiction.  Next, we will look at the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC), including an overview of the ICPC and implementing regulations and case law, the process, when it applies and how to advocate for our clients.  Finally, we will discuss filing motions for our clients to leave the jurisdiction.  

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  • When
    Thursday, November 10, 2016
    9:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Location
    Legal Services NYC - Central
    40 Worth St., 6th floor
    New York, NY 10013
  • CLE Credits
    Skills: 2.00
    Areas of Professional Practice: 1.00
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Practice Skills
    Legal Practice
    Family
  • Price: $120

About the Faculty

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    Melissa Friedman (Speaker)

    Melissa is currently a Legal Aid Staff attorney in the Juvenile Rights Practice doing child protective and delinquency representation for children. She is a former Skadden Fellow who was funded to focus on the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children at Legal Aid. She also worked as the director of outreach for Tough Love, a child welfare documentary. Her work focuses primarily on children who are subject to abuse and neglect proceedings and delinquency proceedings in family court.
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    Kylee Sunderlin (Speaker)

    Kylee Sunderlin joined Brooklyn Defender Services as a Staff Attorney in 2015. Kylee was previously a 2013 Soros Justice Fellow at National Advocates for Pregnant Women, where her work focused on challenging punitive responses to drug use and addiction through public education and appellate litigation. Kylee is a graduate of Michigan Law School, where she participated in the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic, worked for the University of Michigan's Program in Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice, and received the Jane L. Mixer Memorial Award for her demonstrated commitment to advancing social justice. Kylee also earned her B.A. from the University of Michigan, and is a proud Michigander and double wolverine.
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    Jessica Marcus (Speaker)

    Jessica Marcus is a supervising attorney at the Brooklyn Family Defense Project (“BFDP”). She was a founding member of BFDP and has been a supervisor since November, 2007. Prior to the founding of BFDP in July, 2007, Ms. Marcus worked as a staff attorney in the Family Law Unit at South Brooklyn Legal Services, where she represented parents and relatives of children in foster care seeking to reunite their families, and conducted education and outreach regarding the rights of parents with children in the child welfare system. She began in 2001 with a two-year fellowship from Equal Justice Works, focusing on the effects of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on families in the permanency hearing stage of child welfare cases. In addition to her work on individual cases, she developed a joint project with the Legal Aid Society and Lawyers for Children to advocate for the Administration for Children's Services to expand access to housing assistance for families seeking to reunify with children in foster care, or whose children are at risk of foster care placement due to lack of adequate housing. In March, 2006, Ms. Marcus published an article in the N.Y.U. Law School's Review of Law and Social Change on the effects of the federal Welfare Reform Act of 1996 on families involved in the child welfare system. Ms. Marcus graduated in 2001 from N.Y.U. Law School, where she was a Sinsheimer Public Service Scholarship recipient and participated in the Family Defense Clinic, which represents parents and relatives of children involved in the child welfare system. Prior to law school, she was employed for two and a half years as a paralegal in the Legal Aid Society's Homeless Rights Project, working on class action litigation and individual advocacy on behalf of homeless families seeking shelter in the New York City shelter system.
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    MaryAnne Mendenhall (Speaker)

    Mary Anne received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she was an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Fellow. She has interned at The Gulf Region Advocacy Center, the Federal Defenders of San Diego, the Federal Defenders of New York, and the Brooklyn Law School Capital Defender and Federal Habeas Clinic. Prior to law school, Mary Anne worked for Lansner & Kubitschek, where she worked on the trial and appeal of Nicholson v. Williams, a class-action lawsuit credited on a national level for sparking change in the handling of all matters of child protection cases. Mary Anne graduated from Dartmouth College in 2002, with a double major in English and Spanish. She is fluent in Spanish and conversant in Portuguese.