This 2003 paper was prepared by John Greacen for the Center for Families, Children & the Courts of the California Administrative Office of the Courts. It examines empirical evidence from studies and reports on SRLs and court/legal services self-help p ...

Making the court system fairer, faster, and cheaper are at the top of most agendas for restoring public trust and confidence in the legal system. But how much fairer, faster, and cheaper do the courts need to be to meet the public's needs? So long as ...

This report was originally commissioned by the Michigan State Bar Foundation to assist Michigan’s Solutions on Self-Help (SOS) Task Force, but modified to serve as a national resource so that it may be of value to other jurisdictions working to enhance su ...

Research on Self-Represented Litigants was presented at the NACM 2014 Mid-Year Conference. The Current Research on Self-Represented Litigants slide presentation (opens Google presentation) was delivered by Bonnie Hough (Moderator), Angela Tripp, Michigan, ...

This Report was prepared by John Greacen for the Judicial Council of California, center for Families, Children and the Courts. Preliminary research conducted in courts in the San Joaquin Valley in California shows that self help services provided to self- ...

The Remote Appearances of Parties, Attorneys and Witnesses, A Review of Current Court Rules and Practices report is a follow up report to Serving Self-Represented Litigants Remotely – A Resource Guide. It "presents the author’s conclusions about the ...

This report documents the services currently available to persons in this situation in Arkansas. It shows that for the most part they are left on their own and flounder. The recommendations of the report set forth a comprehensive, but relatively inexpensi ...

An evaluation of the programs to assist self-represented litigants in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, Maryland. The Report was prepared as part of the Trial Court Research and Improvement Consortium Pro Se Assessment Project and uses an Executive Ass ...

Program Assessment This program assessment tool (“tool”) is designed to produce a “snap–shot” assessment of a court’s services to self-represented litigants, including but not limited to a specific program designed to provide information to them (“program ...

Many state court systems and individual courts take advantage of federal funding under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act to obtain reimbursement for the costs of adjudicating child support and paternity matters when hearings are handled by persons oth ...