Morneau & Valentine: How a Child's Voice Reaches the Judge

Ontario appoints and pays for a child to have their own lawyer in a custody case, through an office set up for exactly that. Lisa points out that the closest American equivalent normally runs families somewhere between ten and twenty-three thousand dollars, and often changes very little. That gap is where this conversation starts. This episode has two guests. David Morneau is an Ontario lawyer who spent fifteen years on the province's panel of children's lawyers, representing children directl...