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Tuesday January 24
2017
 Defending Parents in Family Court Article 10 Cases: Children's Out of Court Statements

Section 1046 of the Family Court Act permits the admission into evidence of children’s out of court hearsay statements in a fact-finding hearing.  However, in order to form the basis for a finding of abuse or neglect, these statements must be corroborated.  This training will explore the corroboration requirement by examining the types of evidence that are offered as corroboration and reviewing the caselaw regarding what constitutes adequate corroboration.  We will also present strategies for challenging expert validation testimony, which is frequently offered by ACS as corroboration in sex abuse cases, including litigating Frye hearings and challenging the failure to follow validation protocols.

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  • When
    Tuesday, January 24, 2017
    9:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Location
    Legal Services NYC - Central
    40 Worth St., 6th floor
    New York, NY 10013
  • CLE Credits
    Skills: 1.00
    Areas of Professional Practice: 2.00
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Family
  • Price: $0
  • Materials
    Contains 1 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    Eileen Choi (Speaker)

    Eileen Choi, Staff Attorney, Brooklyn Family Defense Project, Brooklyn Defender Services. CUNY Law School - J.D., 2007 and Oberlin College - B.A., 2000. Held Legal Internships at: CUNY Immigrant and Refugee Rights Clinic, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Legal Aid Society. I represent low-income parents in Article 10 abuse/neglect proceedings.
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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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    Anne Venhuizen (Speaker)

    Anne Venhuizen is a team leader and supervising attorney with The Bronx Defenders Family Defense Practice. She graduated cum laude from New York University School of Law, where she participated in the Children's Rights Clinic. Upon graduation from law school, she clerked for the Honorable Robert J. Jonker of the Western District of Michigan. During law school, she interned at the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C. and was a summer associate at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Prior to law school, Anne spent a year working in the Palestinian Territories. Anne received her undergraduate degree from Calvin College.
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    Laura Matthews-Jolly (Speaker)

    Laura Matthews-Jolly represents parents in the Brooklyn Defender Services Family Defense Practice. Prior to joining Brooklyn Defender Services, Laura was an Equal Justice Works Fellow and staff attorney at the City Bar Justice Center, where she helped create and lead a project to provide comprehensive legal representation to young survivors of human trafficking. Upon graduating from law school, Laura clerked for the Honorable Melvin Gelade in New Jersey Superior Court. Laura is a graduate of the CUNY School of Law and developed a passion for direct legal services as a student attorney in both the Immigrant and Refugee Rights Clinic and the Economic Justice Project. She served on the CUNY Law Review. Before law school, Laura earned her B.A. with honors from Vassar College, studied abroad at the University of Havana, Cuba, and worked as a paralegal in the corporate sector for several years. She was a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea for one year after college.