Students will help immigrant parents prepare powers of attorney and other documents to provide for the care of their children in the event of the parents’ arrest by immigration agents and/or deportation. Students also may assist families with other tasks related to planning for potential family separation.
Organization
Mithoff Pro Bono Program
The Family Law for Immigrants Project is an internal project of the Richard and Ginni Mithoff Pro Bono Program.
Project Details
- Project Date
Saturday, April 7
- Project Time
- 8:30am-12:30pm
- Approximate hours of work requested
- 5 hours, including training
- Training
- Friday, April 6, noon-1pm in TNH 3.124. Alternate training may be available. Please contact the pro bono program
- Skills used
- Client interviewing; document preparation/review
- Project location
- Gethsemane Lutheran Church (200 W. Anderson Lane)
- Number of student volunteers requested
- 20
- Class year preference
- 1L, 2L, 3L, LLM
- Required skills
- Language: Spanish very helpful but not required
- To Apply
- Submit email stating interest and any language skills to Sarah Sedgwick at ssedgwick@law.utexas.edu