Trainers:

• Mark Carter, Carter Legal Services
• Erin Osborne, Central Minnesota Legal Services
• Theresa Bofferding, Ortner & Bofferding, LLC

Agenda:
This three-hour session is an introduction to family law practice. Attending this training will help prepare volunteers to take on a case through the Volunteer Lawyers Network or help orient a lawyer to key family law concepts. This session will address the following:

• Family court policies & procedures
• Child custody procedures
• Custody evaluations, Social Early Neutral Evaluations (SENE), Guardian Ad Litems
• Best interest of the Child factors
• Child support determinations
• Overview of division of assets & debts in a dissolution