The State Bar of Texas has created a task force to study issues related to indigent pro se litigants after controversy reached a crescendo in mid-January over a Texas Supreme Court effort to make pro se divorce forms.
On Jan. 30, State Bar President Bob Black wrote to Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson to inform him about the new “SOLUTIONS 2012″ task force. The move comes after the Bar’s Family Law Section and the Texas Family Law Foundation objected to an effort by the high court’s Uniform Forms Task Force to create standardized forms for divorces. The Family Law Section also has raised questions about the Texas Access to Justice Commission, which helped the forms task force with its work.
