Dawne Mitchell Karen J Freedman Liberty Aldrich

Dawne Mitchell Karen J Freedman Liberty Aldrich

December 11, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Recent Column on Appointing Attorneys for Toddlers Relies on 'Careless and Ill-Informed Reading' of New York's Child Representation Rules

A family court lawyer's recent unsubstantiated assertion in a Law Journal column that that judges "allow[] themselves to be potentially influenced by their favorite AFC on the issue of a toddler's custody," is both nonsensical and insulting to the judiciary, a group of prominent Attorneys For Children write.

By Dawne Mitchell, Karen J. Freedman, Liberty Aldrich and Gary Solomon

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