Committee on Children and Family Law

Intent: To establish the responsibilities of the committee. Applicability: The rule shall apply the committee. Statement of the Rule: The Committee on Children and Family Law shall: (1) discuss problems in the administration of justice in family law, such as programmatic and geographic voids in services, procedural reforms, and the unmet legal needs of children and families; (2) develop and recommend solutions, including rules and statutes, to those problems, excluding structural reorganization of the courts; (3) supervise and assist in implementing solutions; (4) provide a forum for debate on political and policy issues facing public and private institutions in their effort to deliver services to children and families; (5) develop and recommend a model and role for community-based councils on children and family law and a model for their relationship to the standing committee; and (6) supervise and assist in establishing community-based councils.