Mental illness and substance abuse play a significant role in many family law cases – especially in the post-COVID era. As an attorney, it is important to know how to best handle these issues in order to brainstorm the best solutions for your clients & their unique situation.
Presented by Kelly Burris of Cordell & Cordell, this CLE course will provide tips for overcoming drug abuse and mental illness in divorce cases & custody quagmires. Kelly will mainly cover how drug & alcohol issues manifest in divorce cases, spotting & dealing with mental health challenges, getting the right help for your client and best practices for dealing with experts in this area of law. Specific subjects addressed: identifying drug & alcohol problems, “legal” drug use issues like marijuana, prescription drug abuse, testing & counseling, understanding drug tests & client test results, identifying mental health issues, the DSM IV & the Old Axis System, the DSM V, anxiety, bipolar, depression, schizophrenia, Intellectual Disability or Learning Disabled, paranoid, schizoid, narcissistic, avoidant, dealing with unreasonable expectations, the Daubert/Robinson Roadmap, fighting for your impaired client and Psychologists: Forensic v. Therapeutic.
Kelly L. Burris got into family law to help people instead of corporations. “I wanted to be able to help people get through these tough situations in their lives and do it the right way.”