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HOW COURTS HELP YOU HELP YOURSELF
Author(s) -
Flaherty Margaret B.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.174-1617.2002.tb00822.x
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , the internet , process (computing) , affect (linguistics) , law , political science , business , public relations , internet privacy , law and economics , psychology , sociology , computer science , world wide web , communication , algorithm , operating system
This note is the result of an in‐depth analysis of existing state judiciary websites and how they have and will continue to affect self‐represented divorce litigants in the United States. It surveys all existing state court websites and examines what resources they provide to pro se litigantsd. It also touches on private divorce‐related websites and offers some comments about their utility to pro se litigants as an alternative and a supplement to court‐based websites. This note calls for courts to adopt programs and policies that facilitate the process of getting a divorce for those who choose to represent themselves, and make those programs and policies available to the pro se litigant via the Internet.