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Thursday September 19
2024
 Joint Custody Litigation and Representing Survivors of IPV

In light of the Court’s recent push towards joint custody in all cases including DV cases what are the strategies we can employ to push back where joint custody may not be appropriate.

 

• What is the current standard regarding joint custody in relationships with “high acrimony” in case law and the relevant statutes.

• What is 'spheres of decision-making?' Do we endorse this? Why/why not?

• What are the case strategies we can use to counter a push towards joint custody

• How do we craft stipulations and orders to best serve our clients where there is no way out of a joint custody arrangement?

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  • When
    Thursday, September 19, 2024
    2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
  • CLE Credits
    Areas of Professional Practice: 2.50
  • Format
    Fully Interactive Videoconference
  • Practice Area(s)
    Family
  • Price: $0
  • Materials
    Contains 1 training item(s)

About the Faculty

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    Lenina Trinidad (Speaker)

    Lenina is a Senior Staff Attorney at Manhattan Legal Services. She has gained significant trial experience in New York County Supreme Court and Family Court. She has represented numerous clients in matrimonial, custody and family offense matters. She maintains a heavy trial calendar most often representing victims in the crises of domestic violence. Lenina has served in several initiatives with the Lawyers Committee Against Domestic Violence (LCADV) to address policy and legislation to enhance protections of domestic violence victims including its forum VAWA@20 reviewing the benefits and deficits of VAWA. She also worked in the coordination of Black Lives Matter forums examining the negative implications for Black and Brown domestic violence victims, including undocumented immigrants. In these forums she challenged the increasing over reliance on the criminal justice system for resolution of issues when victims and their families are in crisis. Lenina is a graduate of The City University of New York School of Law and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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    Maribel Martinez-Gunter (Speaker)

    Maribel Martinez-Gunter is the Director of the Family Law and Immigration Unit at Manhattan Legal Services. She has conducted numerous trials in State Courts and currently supervises a robust litigation team including family and immigration attorneys, and social workers. Maribel maintains an active caseload of trials and related proceedings. Her newest initiatives include the Legal-Medical Partnership with New York Presbyterian Hospital and an initiative engaging hard to reach victims of domestic violence in upper Manhattan. Maribel is a New York Community Trust Leadership Fellow and a Racial Justice Institute Fellow with the Shriver Center. She is a founding member of the Citywide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee at LSNYC. Maribel is a graduate of The City University of New York School of Law. She received her Bachelor of Arts from New York University.