Immigration and Family Law: An Attorney's Toolbox of Best Practices

By Connie Kaplan

As an immigrant herself, Florida family immigration attorney Connie Kaplan takes what she has learned both as an immigrant and as a key immigration lawyer and shares with Family Law Attorneys critical tools to help clients. In her book, Connie illuminates the differences between family law matters when the family law attorney is in tune with immigration laws and how they impact divorce, parental responsibilities, and many other family law matters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Connie Kaplan
• Release date: May 13, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463181188

Connie Kaplan

Ms. Kaplan dedicates her private practice exclusively to immigration law. As an immigrant herself, she has had to navigate many of the same issues as her clients. Connie has a Bachelor’s degree in business from the State University of New York, and her Law degree from Nova Southeastern University, where she was the Editor in Chief for the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law. She has returned to Nova Southeastern University to teach as an Adjunct Professor of Law. As a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Connie has served on AILA South Florida’s Customs and Border Protection and USCIS committees. Ms. Kaplan has assisted foreign nationals with temporary tourist and investment visas, permanent residency, naturalization, and abuse matters. She considers her clients and their families her extended family and is dedicated to offering out-of-the-box options considering her clients’ most intimate personal, family, professional, and financial goals. Connie is a mixed media artist and has had several of her works published. Connie’s art is what keeps her grounded during this period of extreme uncertainty for her clients.

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Immigration and Family Law

An Attorney's Toolbox of Best Practices

By Connie Kaplan, Esq.

Contents

Immigration and Family Law

From the Desk of Connie Kaplan, Immigration Attorney

One: Understanding US Immigration

Talk the Immigration Talk: Learning The Terms

Two: Divorce and Immigration

Three: Child Support and Immigration

Four: Citizenship for Children Once There is Legal Custody

Five: Divorce Prior to Removal of Conditions

Six: Employment-Based Residency: Green Card Despite Separation

Seven: Residency Based on Non-Physical Relationship Trauma (VAWA)

Eight: Spouse of a Temporary Worker During Separation or Divorce

Nine: Adoption Before the Sixteenth Birthday

About The Author

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Immigration and Family Law

An Attorney's Toolbox of Best Practices

From the Desk of Connie Kaplan, Immigration Attorney

Family Law and Immigration Partners

Our country is the entry point of many, many ethnicities comprising of a patchwork of interesting cultures and lifestyles. As attorneys, we do all we can to serve our clients’ needs within our lawful niches, but the truth is that few situations are tidy and neat, free of any additional complicating factors. By its very nature, the marriage between family law and immigration law raises many questions that require answers, but that also offers opportunities for all of us to offer our clients superior and more holistic lawful services.

Most Americans have little to no idea what it feels like to be in a new unfamiliar country. And they know even less about the winding maze and complications involved in gaining lawful residency in the United States.

As an immigrant, I do know.

For 16 years, I sought a way to permanent residency and experienced heart-wrenching rejection for my asylum and other immigration requests. I even endured deportation or, as it known in the immigration community, removal proceedings. Like those who visit my office, I agonized through trying to understand everything. And despite my attempts to take the right steps at the right times, I made all the mistakes that my clients make today before they ever walk into my office.

Like my clients, I KNOW what is like