Issues of poverty and unrepresented litigants present immense challenges to the family court and its judges.

A report issued in 2019 by New Jersey Legal Services provides a sobering perspective. Federal statistics put the state’s poverty rate at about 10%. New Jersey Legal Services points out that if standards were based on what it cost to live in New Jersey, one-third or 2.9 million New Jersey residents experience what it called “true poverty.”

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