Family Court provides a fair, prompt, dignified tribunal for the resolution of the following proceedings: Support, Paternity, Adoption, Family Offense, Juvenile Delinquency, Custody and Visitation, Foster Care Placements, Neglect, Child Abuse, Abandonment, Guardianship, and Persons in Need of Supervision.

Provides trained legal advocates to accompany victims of domestic violence and sexual assault to court, to explain legal processes and to assist in obtaining orders of protection, visitation, custody and child support. Services available at the Riverhead, East Hampton and Southampton offices. Appointment required.

Offers child safety program training to prevent child abduction. Programs offered to private organizations, school curriculum, childrens workshops and assemblies, parent workshops, staff development, and child identification(includes fingerprinting).

Cases range from felonies, divorces, liability and name changes.

Provides mediation and arbitration services for community, parent/child, divorce, custody and visitation, and juvenile issues. Mediators are trained volunteers.

Provides mediation and arbitration services for community, parent/child, divorce, custody and visitation, and juvenile issues. A neutral third person, the mediator, facilitates discussions between the parties. The mediator helps participants develop or refine their communication skills, and teaches school children techniques for resolving disagreements. Mediators are trained conflict resolution volunteers.

Provides mediation and arbitration services for community, parent/child, divorce, custody and visitation, and juvenile issues. A neutral third person, the mediator, facilitates discussions between the parties. The mediator helps participants develop or refine their communication skills, and teaches school children techniques for resolving disagreements. Mediators are trained conflict resolution volunteers.

Provides education and awareness to separating or divorcing parents if there are issues regarding child custody. Topics covered include the impact of separation/divorce on children, cooperative and parallel approaches to co-parenting, legal issues related to custody and/or access, alternatives to litigation, methods of communication and problem-solving.

Seeks, through equal parenting rights, to ensure that children maintain a continuing, nurturing relationship with both parents after divorce or separation. Advocates for fair parenting laws, offers assistance to families in crisis and provides peer support to members along with resource materials and referrals to service providers. Issues addressed include separation agreements, child custody, child support, spousal support, paternity and maintenance/alimony. Meetings facilitated at the Levittown Public Library, 1 Bluegrass Lane, Levittown, NY. Call for meeting schedule.

Provides a service, in collaboration with 2 other agencies (My Sisters' Place and Westchester Hispanic Coalition) to offer free legal services for poverty level residents or those who are victims of domestic violence for consumer disputes, housing, education, benefits, domestic violence, orders of protection, custody, child support, family law, including citizenship applications, work authorizations or other immigration issues.

Provides civil legal services for mental health consumers, including assistance related to: - Social Security Disability (SSD): Initial Benefits, Cessations, Overpayments - Supplemental Security Income (SSI): Initial Benefits, Child Benefits, Cessations, Overpayments, PASS - Medicaid/Medicare - Public Assistance: Food Stamps (SNAP), TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) - Housing: Landlord/Tenant issues, evictions, Section 8 informal hearings - Consumer Law: Debt collection assistance, student loan discharge, bankruptcy - Family Law: Child support modifications, divorce, custody and visitation

Offers legal assistance in the following areas: - Disability: Offers disability rights services and legal advice/representation to developmentally disabled individuals and others. - Family Problems: Provides assistance with kinship custody and assistance for victims of domestic violence. - Housing Problems: Typically helps tenants who are facing eviction or who have been locked out of their apartments. Helps people who are applying for public or subsidized housing who have been denied, or tenants in public or subsidized housing who are worried about losing their subsidy or who have questions about how their rent has been calculated. Helps tenants whose landlords are not making necessary repairs and who are forced to live under unsafe or hazardous conditions. Also provides legal assistance and advocacy to people who have encountered discrimination while looking for housing, or during their tenancy. - Entitlements Advocacy: Assists tenants with welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, SSI, and utilities.

Recovers parentally abducted children and helps to resolve parental custodial disputes through the use of: professional family mediators the toll free number for in-flight and contemplating parents preventative counseling for parents contemplating abduction of their children and referrals to additional agencies and services.

Provides day-of advice on matters such as custody, visitation, child support, and paternity for individuals with cases in Family Court.

Provides a broad range of civil legal assistance to Onondaga County residents who are victims of domestic violence and/or sexual assault. Services include but are not limited to representation for orders of protection, support, divorce and separation, custody and visitation, power of attorney, and housing-related litigation.

The family court hears cases involving dissolution of marriage, nullity, legal separation and paternity, including related issues of spousal support, child support and custody and community property.

* Hears various types of cases, including: Family offense petitions and domestic violence Child custody, guardianship, and visitation petitions Child support and spousal support petitions Paternity petitions Adoptions and child neglect/abuse petitions

* Provides dispute settlement programs.* Offers family court mediation, supreme court mediation.* Provides custody and visitation information, divorce mediation and divorce arbitration.* Offers parent-child mediation.* Provides PINS mediation, juvenile delinquency mediation.

Offers free legal services for individuals living with or affected by HIV/AIDS in cases regarding access to health care services, HIV/AIDS-based discrimination, housing matters, assistance with denials or termination of benefits, health care proxies, powers of attorney, simple wills, family court matters, and divorce.

* Provides dispute settlement programs.* Offers family court mediation, supreme court mediation.* Provides custody and visitation information, divorce mediation and divorce arbitration.* Offers parent-child mediation.* Provides PINS mediation, juvenile delinquency mediation.

* Provides dispute settlement programs.* Offers family court mediation, supreme court mediation.* Provides custody and visitation information, divorce mediation and divorce arbitration.* Offers parent-child mediation.* Provides PINS mediation, juvenile delinquency mediation.

* Provides dispute settlement programs.* Offers family court mediation, supreme court mediation.* Provides custody and visitation information, divorce mediation and divorce arbitration.* Offers parent-child mediation.* Provides PINS mediation, juvenile delinquency mediation.

Provides assistance in custody, visitation, support, divorce, and kinship. Services for individuals who are self-representing include assistance with petition completion and uncontested divorce clinics.

* Offers Child Abduction Prevention and Support Services that provide assistance with: Locate missing children through active investigation. Registers and helps to locate missing children. Dissemination of photos of missing children/safety information. Prevent child abduction through education.* Offers the Parent Help helpline that provides services for mothers and fathers parenting apart and family conflict.

* Provides assistance for these types of legal problems: Consumer Problems: Frozen bank accounts. Debt problems. Student loans. Identity theft. Car problems. Utility shutoffs. Other consumer problems. Housing Problems: Evictions. Lockouts. Security deposits. Repair problems. Subsidized housing. Foreclosures. Other housing problems. Divorce and Other Family Matters: Child support. Custody. Child protective matters. Guardianship. Domestic violence. Other Issues: Access to healthcare. Unemployment benefits. Welfare, Medicaid and Food Stamps and other public benefits. Special education and other school issues. Disability discrimination and other disability issues. Elder law.