Video
Webinar: Representing Transgender Clients in Family Law
May 06, 2011
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A webinar for family law lawyers and law students.
Presented by the Transgender Rights Project of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) and co-sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity; the National LGBT Bar Association; the American Bar Association’s Family Law Section; and the American Bar Association’s Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
The presenters covered several substantive family law topics and provide resources and guidance for representing transgender clients in these specific areas of law, including:
* Making your office respectful and welcoming to transgender clients
* Providing culturally competent representation to transgender clients
* Assisting a transgender client in changing their legal name and legal sex designation
* Advising transgender clients about how to protect their parental rights
* Protecting transgender parents’ rights after relationship dissolution, including in the contexts of child custody, modification, visitation, and child support
Presenters
Benjamin L. Jerner
Managing Shareholder, Jerner & Palmer, P.C.
Shannon Minter
Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Patience Crozier
Senior Associate, Law Office of Joyce Kauffman
Moderated by Jennifer Levi
Director, Transgender Rights Project of Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD)