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CEO Cathy Cramer Testifies at a New York State Joint Public Hearing on Family Court
Our CEO, Cathy Cramer, was grateful to offer testimony at the November 1, 2023 New York State Senate hearing on issues faced by families in the New York Family Court system.
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Without lawyers’ help, Family Court can be extremely difficult to navigate, explains Cathy Cramer, CEO of New York-based Family Legal Care, which aims to make this court more accessible to self-representing litigants. “There’s a lot of legalese—terminology people don’t understand. There’s a lot of procedure they don’t understand,” she says. “It’s not uniform procedure across the courts, [and] people are very overwhelmed and confused.”
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Secretary Jeh Johnson's report found that the “under-resourced, over-burdened New York State court system” has a “dehumanizing effect" on litigants, and a "disparate impact on people of color.” There is, in effect, “a second-class system of justice for people of color in New York State.”
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