What does SRL stand for?

A potential increase in lay litigants - the court forms and processes are more self-explanatory and are intended to create easier access to justice for self-represented litigants.

Arshad is a self-represented litigant writing about her own experience.

Finally, the section is publishing a pro se handbook later this year for self-represented litigants.

More importantly, the court system cannot view the self-represented litigant who has had limited legal assistance in the same light as a fully represented litigant.

They are outmatched by opposing attorneys who simply run the clock - until the self-represented litigant can no longer afford to take yet more time off from work.

A Clerk's Procedures Manual will have step-by-step instructions on securing warrants of eviction for self-represented litigants and will be available in early 1998 through the Clerk's office and resource centers.

More controversial proposals include: * a parent drug treatment court to monitor parents who are drug abusers and who have been involved in child abuse or neglect, * night family courts to provide improved access and better emergency response in domestic violence cases, * enforcement measures to ensure compliance with child support rulings, * divorce packets that allow self-represented litigants to file uncontested divorces, * a fast-track procedure for adoptions, and * teen courts as alternatives for young offenders who commit minor crimes.

: a modest proposal in response to the burdens created by self-represented litigants in family court, Steven Berenson.