Stephanie: What an Attorney for the Child Actually Does

In family court, almost everyone speaks for the child: each parent, each parent's lawyer, sometimes the judge. Stephanie's entire job is to make sure the child speaks for the child. Stephanie is an attorney in New York who represents children in family court as an Attorney for the Child. Before that, she spent years representing domestic-violence survivors at nonprofit organizations across the state. She moved into representing children after repeatedly watching their court-appointed lawyers ...