Category: Access to justice/self-represented litigants (SRLs)
Parenting time in protection orders: Facilitation and supervised visitation (Cook)
Cook County’s Domestic Violence Division is not a family court accustomed to making custody determinations, but instead a high-volume court hearing protection orders and domestic violence criminal matters.... Read More
Self-represented litigants: Reform protection order process and better written information (Delaware)
Delaware made significant changes to its process for obtaining protection from abuse (PFA) orders. First, they redecorated the resource center to make the court environment more welcoming, used... Read More
Self-represented litigants: Navigator, videos, and resources (Multnomah)
A primary challenge identified during the planning phase of the project was that survivors lacked the information needed to make informed choices and lacked necessary support to seek... Read More
Self-represented litigant info on protection orders and child custody (Hennepin)
Most litigants in family court, in Hennepin County as in the rest of the country, do not have lawyers and instead represent themselves. The team identified litigants’ lack... Read More
Court access for Native Americans (Hennepin)
Native Americans experience domestic violence at higher rates than any other group in the United States, yet the Hennepin County team found that very few accessed the relief... Read More