Melissa takes stage at Uniform Law Commission annual meeting

Melissa serves as the Reporter for a drafting committee in the Uniform Law Commission, which convened at its annual meeting in Boston in mid-July. During that annual meeting, Melissa’s act, the Uniform Judicial Interview of Children Act was reviewed for the first time by the entire Commission, which provided its feedback on the draft and the policy decisions taken by the committee to date. The drafting committee will continue meeting over the course of the next year, and have its final reading of the act in July 2025. The act provides guidance to judges who interview children in chambers during private children’s disputes, such as custody or abduction cases. You can read the draft of the act that was reviewed by the Commission here. You can watch the reading of the act from July 23, 2024 here (it is the Eighth Session).