Special Issue Introduction: Immigrants and the Family Court
by
Theo Liebmann & Lauris Wren
Call Number: 50 Fam. Ct. Rev. 570
Publication Date: 2012
Family courts throughout the United States have explicit statutory duties to aid families in crisis, to maintain families whenever appropriate, to protect children and safeguard their well-being, and to
provide children with permanency in their lives. These are not narrow obligations, and the judges, practitioners, and agencies involved in family courts must constantly adapt to serve the individual needs of all the families that come before them. The purpose of this Special Issue is to examine the
unique challenges presented by working with families and children who are immigrants-both documented and undocumented-and the complex interplay between immigration issues and the
family court's obligations to serve the families and children who come before it.
