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Originally Posted by Jazuela
It started out because a neighbor wanted her ex-boyfriend to relinquish any claim on their son so her fiance could start adoption proceedings. Ex-boyfriend was out of the picture since before the fiance met the neighbor, before the baby was born.
So I volunteered to look for her. First stop - the library, CT General Statutes to check on state custody law. But first I had to figure out which volume of the CTGS it was in, since there are like - 20 of them, a few of them 2 inches thick.
I started with the index - which was its own volume. Found some interesting topics so I wrote those down to get back to them another day. By the end of my visit I had two pages of "interesting things to read when I have time" and still hadn't found the custody info.
After a few months I had all the info for my neighbor, and had gone through every volume of the CTGS.
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That makes some sense now.
Some of my clients in the Clinical program Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners had me looking at a lot of MN law as well as Federal law. A lot of those cases involved divorces, child support, name changes and the like.
Law librarians just show you how to use some source and leave you to find what you might need.
Some libraries now seem to be hiring social workers to help those dealing with some kind of trauma when they come into a library which is quite an improvement IMHO.