South Side Weekly: The High Price Of Family Law : comparemel

South Side Weekly: The High Price Of Family Law


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Contested cases, or those in which litigants are on opposite sides of issues such as asset distribution, child support, or a variety of other issues common in family law, are rarely taken as pro-bono cases or by low-cost agencies. (Shutterstock)
Maria Nanos sees firsthand what happens when families can't afford legal services or navigate the bureaucracy of the court system. As chief executive officer of Greenlight Family Services, their work centers on helping families resolve legal concerns around adoption and guardianship, and ninety-five percent of their clients are low-income.
One recent case concerned a single mother and her daughter. Both were living with the daughter's grandmother as a family unit when, Nanos said, "the birth mother got this horrible cancer and so the family called [Greenlight] and said, 'we want to do a guardianship plan if mom cannot make it.'" The family later got good news that the mother would likely survive her cancer and they ultimately did not pursue the guardianship plan. So when things took a turn for the worse, and the mother did pass away, the child was left in the father's custody, which the grandmother told Greenlight was not what the mother had wanted.

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