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Thursday June 22
2017
 Military Mondays: Child Support - Downward Modifications

The Military Mondays clinic, which launched in August 2016, provides U.S. military veterans with free legal advice regarding VA and Social Security disability benefits, as well as brief advice on housing issues. The Military Mondays clinic is expanding to help veterans pursue child support downward modifications. Child support payments that are set impossibly high are a significant poverty problem, and help no one—including custodial parents and children. In many instances, any child support paid is never seen by children or custodial parents because the state is seeking to recoup poverty-related benefits paid to poor children. Securing realistic child support levels facilitates payments, while allowing many veterans to return to the workforce, including regaining access to drivers and professional licenses. This training by Legal Services NYC provides an overview of the child support law in New York and prepares attorneys to help clients draft petitions for downward modifications of child support orders.

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  • When
    Thursday, June 22, 2017
    9:30 am - 11:00 am
  • Location
    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
    4 Times Square
    New York, NY 10036
  • CLE Credits
    Skills: 1.50
  • Format
    Traditional Live Classroom
  • Practice Area(s)
    Family
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Pete Kempner (Speaker)

    Peter Kempner is Director of the Veterans Justice Project and Deputy Director of the Housing Unit at Legal Services NYC-Brooklyn Programs, where he has worked since September 2001. Mr. Kempner has been in the Comprehensive Rights/HIV Unit since September 2001 where he provides general legal services to clients who are HIV positive. In May 2011, Mr. Kempner help found the Veterans Justice Project at South Brooklyn Legal Services, an innovative general legal services practice focusing on veterans, active duty military personal and their families. He received his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in 2001 and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2002. He received his B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York College at Purchase in 1996 and he received an M.A. in Political Management from the Graduate School of Political Management at the George Washington University in 1998. Mr. Kempner's work focuses on population based approach to legal services, and he has served as a member of the Social Welfare Law Committee of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Mr. Kempner was elected as the Chairperson of the Social Welfare Law Committee in 2013. Mr. Kempner is admitted to practice in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. He serves on the advisory committee to the Brooklyn Veteran Treatment Court, is a member of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on Veterans and is accredited by the VA. He is also an adjunct clinical professor at New York Law School where he co-teaches their Veterans Justice Clinic.
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    Brian Dworkin (Speaker)

    Brian Dworkin has practiced family law since 1990 and served as Family Unit Director/Domestic Violence Law and Advocacy Project Director at Queens Legal Services Corporation since May, 2008. He has represented victims of domestic violence, including parents and spouses, in all areas of family practice before the Family Court, Supreme Court and Surrogate’s Court of the State of New York. He meet with clients at the Family Justice Center and maintains his own caseload while supervising the Project’s staff of advocates. Brian also provides training to new attorneys and non-attorney advocates in the representation of domestic violence victims involved in the legal system.