New Juvenile & Family Bench Guide Available For State Trial Court Judges

As part of its efforts through SJI’s Strategic Initiatives Grants (SIG) program, the Center for Public Policy Studies (CPPS) has recently finalized a Juvenile & Family Immigration Bench Guide for state trial court judges. The Juvenile & Family Bench Guide is intended to provide judges with an overview of areas of federal immigration law that might intersect with a juvenile or family case. Like its predecessor, the Bench Guide for State Trial Court Judges on Immigration Issues, the Juvenile & Family Bench Guide is designed to provide judges with a quick summary of key immigration law that they can access electronically from the bench. Judges using the guide should be aware that it is not meant to be an in-depth treatise on immigration law. The Juvenile & Family Bench Guide also contains two types of analyses: 1) topical discussions that examine how immigration law can affect the issues that may arise in a juvenile or family case; and 2) summaries of select areas of federal immigration law regarding legal entry or exposure to removal.

The Juvenile & Family Bench Guide is very user-friendly, and the PDF document is available now on the SJI website. All documents and work conducted by CPPS for this SIG project are available on their website: www.centerforpublicpolicy.org.