The training will provide a nuts and bolts approach to handling an uncontested guardianship of a minor case. The training will include instruction on how to complete the petition and accompanying pleadings, waive fees and costs, obtain assents from the ward's parents, and how to handle issues of service and the bond. This class will give participants the tools they need to handle simple guardianship of minor cases from filing through the establishment of a permanent guardianship. In addition, attorneys and law students who attend this class will be qualified to participate in the VLP/Senior Partners for Justice guardianship petition assistance projects in the Norfolk (Wednesday), Middlesex (Thursday) and Suffolk (Tuesday and Wednesday) Probate & Family Courts on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. These are limited assistance representation projects in which volunteers help pro se petitioners complete and file the guardian of minor petition and other pleadings.
Title:VLP Training - Intro to Guardianship of Minors
When/Where:Title:VLP Training - Intro to Guardianship of Minors
99 Chauncy St. Suite 400
Boston, MA 02111
Speaker:
VLP trainings are offered free of charge to active volunteers. Please see the VLP Training Policy.
Speaker:
- Attorney Donna Mizrahi, a VLP volunteer and an Associate at Ropes and Gray in the Litigation department. Prior to joining Ropes and Gray in 2011, Donna served as a New Alternatives Program Fellow at VLP. As a fellow and now as a frequent volunteer, Donna has a great deal of experience handling guardianship matters of minors and incapacitated adults and in providing training in those substantive areas. Donna is knowledgeable about guardianship practice in Massachusetts and oversees the Guardianship Project at Ropes and Gray.
VLP trainings are offered free of charge to active volunteers. Please see the VLP Training Policy.
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