The Center for Excellence in Family
Studies and
the Institute for Legal Studies
invite faculty, students and staff to the following
panel discussion and University Lecture
"Noncustodial Fatherhood: How Law and Policy Influence Men's Connections to their Children"
Friday, April 20, 2007 from 9:00-12:30 in Lubar Commons (7200 Law)
-- You are welcome to attend all or part of this event--
Cosponsored by: the Institute for Research on Poverty, the La Follette School of Public Affairs, the Department of Consumer Science, the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and the School of Social Work, with support from the University Lectures Committee.
For more information: Please contact Maureen Ittig at mpittig@wisc.edu.
DRAFT PROGRAM
9:00-9:20 Coffee, Rolls, and Registration
9:20 Welcome:
Margo Melli, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law Emerita
Opening Remarks and Introductions:
William S. Aquilino, Professor of Human Development
and Family
Studies
9:30-10:30
Panel Presentations:
Carolyn Heinrich, Professor of Public Affairs,
LaFollette School of Public Affairs
(Child Support Arrears Forgiveness Pilot Program)
David Pate, Assistant Professor, Helen Bader School of
Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
(Non-custodial fathers of children on welfare)
Tonya Brito, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin
Law School
(How state child support rules treat families where there is
shared parenting and where there is multiple partner
fertility)
10:30-10:45 Q & A
10:45 Refreshment Break
11:00-11:45 University Lecture Keyote Address:
Solangel Maldonado, Associate
Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
"The Law's Responsibility for Paternal
Disengagement:
Facilitating Paternal Involvement Amongst Divorced, Deadbroke
and Incarcerated Fathers"
About the Speaker: Solangel Maldonado is Associate Professor
of Law at Seton Hall Law School where she teaches Torts, Gender and
the Law, Race, Ethnicity and the Law, as well as a number of
courses in the family law area. She received her B.A. from Columbia
College and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the recipient of a Human Rights
Fellowship. While in law school, she served as the managing editor
of the Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law and interned for the
Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Division. Following law school,
Professor Maldonado clerked for the Honorable Joseph A. Greenaway,
Jr., United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Prior to joining the Seton Hall faculty in 2001, she practiced
commercial litigation with Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays &
Handler, LLP and with Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood in New York
City. She currently serves on the New Jersey Commission on Higher
Education and was recently honored by the Dominican Bar Association
and the Trenton City Council for her contributions to the Latino
legal community.Professor Maldonado's scholarship has focused on
how the law can protect children's relationships with
nonresidential parents or parental figures. She recently published
an article arguing that, by legally requiring both parents to
participate in their children's upbringing after divorce, the law
can trigger a social norm of nurturing fatherhood post-divorce,
thereby decreasing the likelihood of disengagement among
nonresidential fathers. Her current work explores the reasons many
Americans prefer to adopt children of color from other countries
over African-American children. Professor
Maldonado's law review articles include:
Discouraging Racial Preferences in Adoptions
39 U.C. Davis L.
Rev. 1415 (2006);
Deadbeat or Deadbroke: Redefining Child Support For Poor
Fathers, 39 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 991 (2005);
Beyond Economic Fatherhood: Encouraging Divorced Fathers to
Parent, 153 U.
Pa. L Rev. 921 (2005); and
When Father (or Mother) Doesn't Know Best: Quasi-Parents
and Parental Deference After Troxel v.
Granville, 88 Iowa L. Rev. 865 (2003).
11:45-12:00 Discussant: Daniel R. Meyer,
Assistant Professor of Social Work and IRP Affiliate.
12:00-12:30 Q & A, Concluding Remarks.