SAVE THE DATE!
Friday, May 8, 2009
Montgomery County Divorce Roundtable, Inc. presents:
Parenting Together After Separation
How to Keep It Out of Court -- Strategies for Interdisciplinary
Professionals
Produced with support from the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Office
When: Friday, May 8, 2009 Time: 8:00 AM to 4:15 PM
Where: The Universities at Shady Grove, Rockville, Montgomery County, MD
What: A full day Conference presented in nine break-out sessions via
interactive, interdisciplinary speaker panels. Each presentation is designed
to
teach skills, explain research findings, explore and share best practices in
different modalities (including mediation, collaborative law, parenting
coordination, parenting education) for transforming custody litigation and
potential
litigation into alternative forms of dispute resolution. A key focus will be
on developing effective strategies for managing parental conflict in child
custody matters.
Keynote Speaker: Andrew I. Schepard, Professor of Law, Hofstra University
School of Law, Director of the Hofstra University’s Center for Children,
Families and the Law; author of Children, Courts, and Custody:
Interdisciplinary
Models for Divorcing Families; Editor in Chief of the Family Court Review,
which is sponsored by the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.
Who should attend: family law attorneys of all experience levels, judges,
mediators, mental health professionals, school counselors, court and private
custody evaluators, educators.
Cost: $175 regular registration after 4/1/09; $150 early registration
before 4/1/09; $95 students, county or state agency staff, nonprofit staff.
Choose one of three 2 hour morning presentations: A. Resolving the Impasse
Issues of Relocation; B. Parenting 101-The missing high-school AP course - a
necessary support to successful ADR; C. Developing Successful Parenting Plans
-- Theory and Practice
Choose two from six 1.5 hour afternoon presentations: D. Overnights for
Young Children -- Don’t Paint by the Numbers; E. “I won’t go!” -- What to do
when the child rejects an access schedule; F. Custody Evaluations -- Help or
Harm?; G. Parenting Coordinators -- What are they and how can they help?; H.
Get it from the web: parenting tools available on the internet; I. Learning
Disabilities and ADD in Parenting Plans.
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