Trainings
The Volunteer Lawyers Project offers free trainings in many areas for SPJ volunteers. Please check the VLP website for more information. All VLP trainings are free to active volunteers.
Free or discounted registration to many continuing legal education seminars at MCLE, BBA, MBA, and the Suffolk University Center for Advanced Legal Studies is available to active Senior Partners volunteers. Read more about our training policy.
For information about training vouchers, contact Russell Rennie at 617-423-0648 x129 or e-mail: rrennie@vlpnet.org.
Family Law & Guardianship Listservs
Pro bono members of Senior Partners and the Volunteer Lawyers Project are invited to join our new Family Law and Guardianship listservs. These listservs are email discussion groups in which you can ask questions, and share information, ideas and practice materials and tips.
To sign up, go to the VLP website and click on the listservs link. If you have not already registered for the VLP website, you will need to do so before joining a listserv. Click here to register for the VLP website.
Analyses of Recent Cases
by Anita Robboy, Esq.
Della Corte v. Ramirez, 81 Mass.App.Ct. 906 (2012)
In a Rescript Opinion, dated February 2, 2012, the Appeals Court affirmed the Suffolk Division of the Probate and Family Court’s denial of Gabriella Della Corte’s (“Gabriella”) request for modification of the award of joint legal custody to her former spouse, Angelica Ramirez (“Angelica”). On appeal from the Judgment of Modification, Gabriella raised three issues: 1) that Angelica was not the child’s legal parent; 2) that the Judge erred in finding no material or substantial change in circumstances warranting a change in the joint legal custody of the child; and 3) that it was error to not set out whether continued joint custody was in the child’s best interests. MORE...
CASE ANALYSIS ARCHIVES |
