Immigration Issues in Family Law 2024

  • OnDemand seminar
  • Immigration Law
Immigration Issues in Family Law 2024

This program is an excerpt from Advanced Skills & Techniques for Family Law Practice 2023

Immigration insights

Each president is given broad legal authority of act on immigration, and recent administrations have made divergent changes. In this era of contested and rapidly evolving immigration policies, family law practitioners can face unique challenges when it comes to representing immigrants or non-citizen clients. Provide more informed, compassionate, and effective counsel to clients facing immigration questions with help from Immigration Issues in Family Law 2024.

Join experienced immigration attorney Lucy Lu Lorentz for an examination of the key immigration issues impacting family law matters including custody disputes and divorce. Explore key topics such as:

  • The impact of immigration status on family law proceedings
  • How different types of visas can impact marriage, divorce, and parental rights
  • The available options for marriage-based green cards
  • Documenting a legitimate marriage relationship
  • How divorce or separation may impact immigration status

Product details

Faculty

  • Receive an overview of the key immigration issues in family law matters
  • Understand the importance of taking clients’ immigration status into consideration
  • Learn the most commonly used immigrant and non-immigrant visa types
  • Know the different types of marriage-based green cards and their requirements
  • Account for the impact of divorce on client immigration status
  • Gain insight on overcoming language barriers
  • Family law practitioners
  • Guardians ad litem for minors
  • Family Court Services professionals
  • Family Court Commissioners

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