A long-awaited initiative intended to ease delays in family court begins Monday, Jan. 6, when the state Judicial Branch formally launches a pilot program that will, for the first time, allow people to hire lawyers to handle only a portion of their cases.
The statewide limited-scope representation pilot program is designed to help people with limited resources who can’t afford to pay a lawyer for the entirety of a divorce or other family law case. If successful, the practice, also known as unbundling, could be expanded to include other civil legal matters, court administrators say.
