Family
About the Section
Student practitioners in the Family Law section represent clients by court appointment (children, absent defendants, and interdicts in interdiction cases). Students also represent indigent persons in custody, divorce, continuing tutorship, and paternity cases, as well as small successions and estate planning. Students interview clients, conduct fact investigation, discovery, and legal research, prepare and file pleadings in court, develop a theory of their case, and prepare memorandums. The students make court appearances and participate in settlement conferences with opposing attorneys. Students make several court appearances to argue their cases at hearings and trials in Orleans and Jefferson Parish Courts.
Section Success
The section recently prevailed in federal court at the Eastern District of Louisiana. The Clinic was appointed by the Honorable Ivan L. R. Lemelle to represent our client in an International Child Abduction case under the Hague Convention. Following a two-day trial and oral arguments, Student Practitioner, Emily McCrory, secured a judgment in our favor. As a result, our client's fifteen-year-old son is able to remain here in the United States with his mother and sister.
Supervised by Professor Tobie Tranchina