Mission Statement

IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF MY SON DEREK

and all other childrens' cases adjudicated in the Staten Island Family Court and is now expanded to the Staten Island Civil Court Housing Part To create an unbiased environment for the benefit of Pro Se litigants ONLY. The coalition is especially dedicated to the loss of children to the other parent and to the system. Single-parents in the Staten Island Court having open or closed cases in the Staten Island Family Court. This coalition is to promote professional conduct from court personnel starting from the Clerk of Court, record room, court officers, 18B Law Panel Attorneys that represent litigants; and court referees, support magistrates, and judges that preside over cases. To assist Pro Se litigants with information, resources available to them, to lend support from a litigant that has experienced the injustices that the adversarial environment a court can create during the litigation of a case and the legal process of the Staten Island Family and Civil Courts.

Attorneys admitted into the Bar Association take this oath below

"I refer to this oath as the Hippocratic oath,
only when the circumstance calls for it. I call it the way I see it."

"You solemnly swear that you will do no falsehood nor consent to the doing of any in court, and that if you know of an intention to commit any, you will give knowledge thereof to the justices of the court or some of them that it may be prevented; you will not wittingly or willingly promote or sue any false, groundless or unlawful suit nor give aid or consent to the same; that you will delay no man for lucre or malice, but will conduct yourself in the office of an attorney within the courts according to the best of your knowledge and discretion, and with all good fidelity, as well as to the courts, as to your clients. So help you God."

Saturday, November 8, 2008

THE HOUSING CRISIS AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE INDIGENT LITIGANT IN CIVIL COURT

The housing crisis is a truly a nightmare for homeowners and renters. However the substantive issues in civil housing between homeowners and renters seem to be this:
Either the homeowner lets the tenant know of their foreclosure or they do not. Banks force the tenant out no matter what, they do not try to assist homeowners in keeping their homes. Banks just want their houses. They may buy a tenant out or they may not. Either way the tenant finds out by surprise that their landlord has been collecting rent and not paying their mortgages and have lost their homes, that leaves tenants no option but to move the time frame the bank demands in the court of law. The only balance is the trier-of-fact identifying with both sides of these matters entering the court at vast rates because of so many foreclosures. An attorney to represent the best interest of the children living in these household that now have to uproot,
Posted by The Staten island Coalition on Judicial and Social Awareness at 11/08/2008 06:51:00 AM

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