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Family separation can be very stressful. Everyone in the family goes through changes, including parents, children, and other family members. You may also have more expenses, such as a second home, while living on the same income. Dividing property,… MORE
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Today’s family law system requires its participants to navigate a variety of court and dispute resolution processes and to understand complex legal issues. Yet, due to a number of economic and social forces, there are an increasing number of self-… MORE
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The use of unbundled legal services is growing rapidly. An increasing number of jurisdictions explicitly allow unbundling and a growing number of attorneys are offering the service. Yet many attorneys remain unaware of its availability. As this… MORE
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Unbundled legal services, in which a client hires an attorney for agreed-upon discrete tasks, is a partial solution to the access to justice problem in our nation’s courts, and has become increasingly used and accepted in the last several decades.… MORE
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Over the last century, many efforts have been made to change and improve our civil justice system: thought leaders have conferred, rules have changed, processes have improved. Even still, the call for real, meaningful change persists.
Now, we… MORE
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IAALS and others have catalogued and documented the case for civil justice reform over the past ten years. The results of multiple nationwide surveys have found that cost is too high and it affects court access; delay increases cost; and discovery… MORE
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In 33 states and the District of Columbia, judicial nominating commissions play a part in selecting at least some judges. States have adopted commission-based appointment of judges, as called for in the O’Connor Judicial Selection Plan, to achieve… MORE
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IAALS has been working to improve and expand judicial performance evaluation programs since our founding in 2006. One of the major challenges these programs face is effectively communicating JPE results with voters. Recent public opinion research… MORE
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Many litigants navigating state family courts today are without attorney representation—in some courts, these numbers are increasing. Justice system stakeholders have made significant efforts in the last decade to develop self-helpinformation,… MORE
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Many litigants navigating state family courts today are without attorney representation—in some courts, these numbers are increasing. Justice system stakeholders have made significant efforts in the last decade to develop self-helpinformation,… MORE