Dive Deep into Mississippi Family Law at MC’s Family and Children’s Law Center.
The Family and Children’s Law Center is both a valuable resource for students and a ministry for children in Mississippi. The Center equips students and community volunteers with the skills required to shepherd children in need of an advocate through the court system.
Discover the dramatic impact family law has on the community
The Family and Children’s Law Center includes substantive courses, clinical experiences, and a student run society. Courses include:
- Domestic Relations
- Civil Law of Family and Persons
- Current Issues in Family Law
- Children in the Legal System
- Juvenile Legal Issues Seminar
- Wills and Trusts
- Estate and Gift Taxation
- Civil Law of Successions and Donations
- Race and the Law
- Bioethics and the Law
Under faculty supervision, second and third year law students have the opportunity to participate in Youth Court and Chancery Court on child-related cases or serve as a court-appointed Guardian ad Litem. Annual Guardian ad Litem trainings offered through MC/Law CLE Department are also an integral part of the Center.
The Child Advocacy Program and Legal Clinics are the heart of the Family and Children’s Law Center
The center’s Adoption Legal Clinic provides free legal assistance to families who wish to adopt, and matches those families with law student attorneys who can help make the dream of a family come true.
Explore Family and Children’s Law Clinical Experience Options Available at MC.
Adoption Legal Clinic
Help provide permanent homes for children in foster care while working toward your law degree.
Advanced Child Advocacy Clinic
Explore advanced child custody and adoption issues in chancery court.
The Guardian ad Litem Clinic
Work directly in the court room serving as guardians ad litem, advocation for children involved in Chancery Court proceedings.
The Youth Court Clinic
Work directly defending and counseling children accused in youth court of committing serious offenses.
Mission First Legal Aid Clinic
Help provide legal help to those in need with guardianships, custody and visitation, landlord/tenant, property, expungements, and consumer cases.
Contact The Family & Children’s Law Center
Shirley Kennedy
Director, Family and Children’s Law Center
Director, Child Advocacy Programs
skennedy@mc.edu
phone: 601.925.7180
fax: 601.925.7182
