Emergency Planning for Undocumented Parents

Presented by Professor Joe Rosenberg, CUNY Law & Mariana Negron-Quinones, Attorney at Safe Passage Project, CUNY Law ‘19.

Participants will learn how to advise parents about advancing planning documents to protect minor children, to be used in the case of a parent’s detention or deportation, including:

• Temporary Care & Custody: Someone to make temporary decisions over the children’s daily routines, school related decisions, and routine medical decisions.
• Standby Guardian: Someone to care for children long-term.
• Power of Attorney: Someone to make financial decisions only for their children and/or for other family members, for example paying bills, signing leases, and using bank accounts.

Key information about emergency planning:

• Emergency planning is done in advance.
• Documents created for the purposes of emergency planning can be created without having to go to court.
• Parents can always change or revoke (cancel) the document.
• The documents we will discuss do not change a parent’s legal rights to their children or people under their care.
• The person chosen as the caretaker, guardian, or agent for the parent’s children will not act unless the parent has been detained or deported.

Participants will also learn about the Planning with Parents Guided Interview, an interactive program that provides information about advance planning, generates advance planning documents, and includes instructions on how to execute these documents.

For more information visit: https://planningwithparents.commons.gc.cuny.edu/