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News
Tuesday, March 22,2011
Josh Pherigo & Laura Zamora, News Editors
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UN ! offers divorce assistance
By Clinton Lynch
Contributing Writer
Getting a divorce can be
arduous, time-consuming and
stressful for everyone involved.
However, it can also be less
expensive with help from the
lawyers of UNT.
In the problematic situa-
tion of a divorce, Student Legal
Services offers legal represen-
tation and counsel, and helps
educate students after gradu-
ation so they can comfortably
handle future legal situations
on their own.
"We have packets prepared
to assist students," said Kathryn
McCauley, the director of Student
Legal Services. "All they have to
do is meet with the attorney who
will explain the process."
Getting started
Once the student understands
what to do, he or she must file the
paperwork in court, pay the fees,
and when their day comes, they
will follow a script given to them
by Student Legal Services in front
of a judge, McCauley said.
The only fees a student has to
incur are the Court fees, which
are usually less than $250. The
department never charges
attorney fees for students, she
said.
Students save money because
they don't have to pay lawyers
and family mediation special-
ists hourly rates.
" It seems beneficial to have an
organization at U NT that college
students can go to in order to
navigate through today's legal
system," said Kyle Briggs, a
general studies junior.
Complications
There are many different
issues that can arise during a
divorce.
If children are involved, there
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can be disagreements on custody,
but typically custody is shared by
both parties and involves stan-
dard visitation rights, McCauley
said.
Another problem that can
occur is dividing the equity
between both spouses, whether
the equity is a house or the
possessions inside the house.;
"We don't usually have students
that have a lot of equity in their
"We have packets
prepared to
assist students."
—Kathryn McCauley,
Student Legal
Services Director
houses. It's rare a student will
own ahouse," she said. "To hold
up a divorce because you want to
divide the equity in a house that
you have had in three years or less
does not make any sense —there
is no equity in the house."
Students who graduate and
are working with Student Legal
Services before the divorce is
finalized will continue to receive
help until it is done.
However, McCauley warns
about the problems students
may encounter if a divorce
case drags out longer then was
initially planned.
It is more costly, stressful,
and if you have children, more
difficult for them, she said.
UNT offers a family medi-
ation program to help during
the divorce process. Alawyer,
a psychologist and a money
manager can be present to
help begin the early stages
of divorce and to make sure
it runs smoothly and effi-
ciently.
From 2009 to 2010, 12
percent of cases handled
by the department were
family law, McCauley said.
John Hippie, a psychologist at
UNT Counseling and Testing
Services, said there are only
about four or five couples a
semester that use the center
for family mediation.
"Mediation helps people
calmly go through the process
and ideally be able to be civil
afterthe divorce is over," Hippie
said. "This is especially true
when kids are involved. Even
though they're not husband
and wife, they will be mom
and dad together."
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Commuter Week launches
By K ay i ah Baca
Intern
A 2011 U.S. News & World
Report named UNT the No.
1 destination for transfer
students in Texas and fourth
in the nation.
Monday kicked off
Commuter Week, features
a series of events on- and
off-campus that cater to
commuter students.
"This is an opportunity
to bring commuter students
together from all over Denton,"
said Kristina Collins, a grad-
uate assistant in the Student
Activities Center. "We want to
make that connection back to
the UNT campus."
The events will honor the
report by addressing different
requirements of non-tradi-
tional students who need
help networking at UNT, said
Dantrayl Smith, a student activ-
ities coordinator and higher
education doctoral student.
A total of 1,630 new transfer
students came to UNT this
spring in addition to more
than 4,000 transfers last
fall, according to the UNT
Factbook.
The week-long event is spon-
sored by the Student Activities
Center and eight partnering
apartment complexes.
On Wednesday, there will be
an apartment fair at the UNT
Library Mall.
The event will have free food
and tables set up for the apart-
ments to provide information
about their rates and ameni-
ties, Collins said.
She said this year's
Commuter Week outreach
program is bigger than last
year.
The goal of Commuter
Week is to help students find
others who share the same off-
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North Texas, kicking off the second annual Commuter Week.
campus housing experiences,
Collins said.
The apartment complexes
have teamed up to host other
social events, including a
movie showing tonight at
McConnell Park, a live DJ
performance on Thursday at
The Forum and a fajita extrav-
aganza on Friday at City Pare
at Fry Street.
"We figured this was the
perfect opportunity to open up
a City Pare tradition to all of
U NT," said Martin McBurney,
the general manager for City
Pare.
Mary Ladage, a biology
graduate student who
commutes to campus, said she
didn't know about Commuter
Week last year and believes
the event is beneficial.
"I went apartment hunting
on my own and it was a little
overwhelming," she said.
Smith said Commuter Week
is a win-win situation for UNT
and surrounding apartment
complexes.
"It allows the apartment
community to come together
to better serve UNT students,"
he said.
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