I was asked to render assistance in a compelling pro bono matter in Middlesex (see below), but already have three commitments that day. If anyone can help, please let me know and I'll pass on your info.
I don't know if husband has resources and/or if a counsel fee application would be successful.
<x-sigsep></x-sigsep> David Perry Davis, Esq.
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www.FamilyLawNJ.pro
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57 Hamilton Avenue -- Suite 301
Hopewell, NJ 08525
Voice: 609-466-1222
Fax: 609-466-1223
Manavi ( http://www.manavi.org/ ) needs a pro-bono family law attorney for a survivor who has a court date in Middlesex County for March 29.
Client faced serious, physical violence throughout her marriage. In 2016, her husband was arrested for beating her severely, but she pleaded with the Prosecutor to drop the case. Recently, the violence escalated to the extent that she landed in the hospital. She was so afraid of her husband, that she lied to the doctors and no criminal action was taken against him.
In June 2018, her husband sent her and their 7 year old daughter back to India and abandoned them there. Client, who's on an H4 visa (under her husband's H1B) had to fight for months with the US authorities to reissue her visa so that she and her daughter could come back to the US. Client and her daughter went straight into a domestic violence shelter in Brooklyn, where they lived from 11/29 until 1/30 when a judge removed the child from her care.
The reason the child was removed from her was because she had signed a divorce agreement (12/5/2018) which stipulated (unbeknownst to her) that she could not take the child out of NJ. When the husband learned they'd returned and that the mother and daughter were actually living in a DV shelter in Brooklyn, the child was put into the permanent care of the husband and mother was given supervised visitation.
Client has a court date on 3/29 in Middlesex County and really needs the assistance of an attorney. Any help would be much appreciated.