John J. Aman, Esq.
John J. Aman has practiced law in
Mr. Aman was appointed a Family Court Support Magistrate in 1993 and now holds the position of Deputy Chief Family Court Magistrate, spending one half of his time handling a support calendar in Erie County, and the other half addressing administration, policy and educational issues of New York’s Support Magistrates.
Mr. Aman is very active in the Erie County Bar Association, and is past chair of the Practice and Procedure in Family Court Committee, and a member of the Nominating Committee presently. Mr. Aman is also past President of the New York State Family Court Support Magistrates’ Association, past President of the Erie County Bar Foundation, a member of the Board of Directors of the Erie County Aid to Indigent Prisoners Society, Inc., and Vice-President of the St. Thomas More Guild. He has been a foster parent for the Department of Social Services and is active in various community activities.
Mr. Aman has made numerous presentations at the local and State bar association level and has published various articles, including an article on the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act in the New York State Bar Association Journal.
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Susan C. Antos
Susan has
been a Staff Attorney in the Albany Office of the Empire
Justice Center since 1989. She provides advice, co-counseling and legal
support and back-up on welfare issues, including day care and child support
enforcement issues and the IV-D system, for 33 Legal Services Programs serving
nearly 50 counties, as well as scores of community groups. She chairs the upstate legal services welfare
task force, conducts training on a wide variety of welfare issues, and serves
as coordinator of the Legal Services Advisory Committees to the New York State
Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance.
She is
admitted to practice in New York State and the United States District Courts,
Northern and Western Districts of New York, and the United States Court Of
Appeals, Second Circuit and has litigated many cases involving the
constitutional rights of low income families, particularly Doe v. Wing,
which found the residency requirements for welfare benefits to be
unconstitutional, Broniszewski v. Perales and Schwartz v. Dolan, which
held that welfare recipients receiving support collection services have the
right to adequate notice regarding the support collected on their behalf and a
right to review the manner in which it is distributed. She has also litigated cases that have
successfully upheld the employment rights of welfare recipients who have
participated in workfare programs.
Ms. Antos developed and currently oversees the fair hearing
bank, an on-line library of welfare fair hearings that are available free of
charge at the web site of the
She has
served the New York State Child Care Coordinating Council as Board Member and
Vice-President for over 10 years, and chaired the New York State Bar
Association, Social Services Committee, 1996-2000.
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Hon. Laura E. Drager
Judge
Laura Drager was appointed to the New York City
Criminal Court bench in 1987, and designated an Acting Justice of the New York
State Supreme Court, Criminal Term,
Prior to
her judicial appointment, she was the Chief of the Rackets Bureau in the Kings
County District Attorney's office. She
also served as an Assistant District Attorney in the trial division and sex
crimes unit of the New York County District Attorney's office. After graduating from
Judge Drager chaired the New York City Criminal Court Committee
on Domestic Violence created by the New York State Unified Court System from
its inception in 1992 to 2002. Among its
many accomplishments, the Committee developed the brochure, Domestic
Violence -- You Don't Have To Face It Alone. This brochure, intended for victims of
domestic violence, explains in simple language how a victim may get assistance
from the courts. Over 100,000 copies of
the brochure have been distributed throughout the city.
Judge Drager was the principal author of the article, The
Paper Shield: Orders of Protection
in the New York City Criminal Court published at 48 The Record 891
(1993). She has lectured on domestic
violence issues to judges and doctors and at bar association programs and has
testified before a State Senate Committee.
Judge Drager is a member of the Matrimonial Law Committee of the
New York City Bar Association and a Director of the New York Women’s Bar
Association. She is a member of the Mental Health Professional Screening Committee
for the First and Second Departments and serves as the
Selected prior programs:
Speaker,
CLE Course, Representing Survivors of Domestic Violence in Matrimonial Cases,
Sanctuary for Families and Association of the Bar of the City of
Panelist,
Effective Cross-Examination of the Mental Health Expert in Custody Cases: An
Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Association of Family and Conciliation Courts,
Speaker,
Forum, Unreported Cash in Matrimonial Cases: Confronting Tax, Criminal and
Ethical Ramifications, Association of the Bar of the City of
Speaker,
Forum, Law Guardians in Matrimonial Cases,
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GEORGE E. REED,
JR., ESQ.
(914) 946-5000
Website: www.delinquency.org
Practice: Family
law, appeals, general practice
Firms: Sole
practice and partnership, White Plains, 1986-present
(Reed
& Neale, 1991-97)
Associate,
N.Y.C. (litigation and general practice):
Putney,
Twombly, Hall & Hirson,
1984-86
Moore
Berson Lifflander & Mewhinney, 1979-84
Wachtel Manheim & Grouf,
1978-79
Education:
Articles: “A
Protocol for Juvenile Delinquency”, N.Y.L.J.,
“Trends
in the Case Law of Termination of Parental Rights”,
Cases: In
re Benjamin L., 92 N.Y.2d 660 (1999) (pre-petition delay)
In
re Neftali D., 85 N.Y.2d 631 (1995) (sufficiency of
petition)
Appellate
Division (various)
Languages: French,
Spanish, Swedish (reading knowledge)
Home:
3
children (ages 20-23).
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Hon. Judith M. Reichler
Judge Reichler
is a Town Justice in New
Paltz,
Before that, Judge Reichler provided legal services to indigent persons with
family legal problems, including child support, custody, housing, and domestic
violence. She has been managing attorney
for Legal Services of the
A graduate of
Among many activities, Judge Reichler is a member of Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye’s Family
Violence Task Force, and participates in its annual seminars for judges
throughout the state.
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Paula Roberts, Esq.
Paula Roberts is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Her current work focuses on policies for establishing and disestablishing paternity, improving medical child support, child support guidelines and their impact on low-income and incarcerated obligors, and the intersection of welfare and child support policies with initiatives to promote marriage in the low-income community.
Ms. Roberts began her career in private
practice in
For her work on behalf of low income
children, she has received the federal Office of Child Support
Enforcement’s (OCSE) Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Child Support Enforcement Association’s
(NCSEA) Community Service Award, and two Golden Heart Awards from the Association for Children for
Enforcement of Support (ACES). She has also been honored by the Mandel
Legal Aid Clinic of the
She is a graduate of
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