Connecticut, Children's Rights Attorney

When a school, court, or other organization makes a decision that harms your child's chances of success, your child cannot argue. When dealing with organizations and institutions, your child seldom has a voice. You can find a voice for your child at the Law Office of Piper A. Paul, LLC. We advocate for children in a variety of areas.

• Education Law: We represent children with special needs, including those arising from learning disabilities, physical disabilities, diabetes, autism, mental health issues, and behavioral issues. We will meet with you to discuss the challenges your child faces. We encourage you to include your child in this process.
  
  We will help you navigate school systems; develop individual education plans (IEPs), 504 plans; attend PPT meetings; and determine what rights your child may be entitled to as a result of their disability regarding schooling, regarding special education, extracurricular activities, sports, and other related services. We strive to work as a team with you as an active and important team member with the school to develop an appropriate program for your child. If an agreement cannot be reached, mediation and litigation can be pursued to procure an appropriate program for your child. 
  
• Juvenile Law: Increasingly, education law and juvenile law overlap. Police work in many schools, and kids and teens can be suspended or expelled when they are accused of various offenses. Accused kids and teens have rights and deserve compassionate adult intervention.
  
  Maybe your child was expelled due to a fight or for saying something that someone found offensive. Perhaps your child is not allowed to ride the bus, go on field trips, or participate in after-school activities because of a perceived pattern of problematic behavior. Are your child's rights being protected? There are ways to find out and to protect your child when he or she is accused of breaking rules. We can work with you, your child, school systems, and courts to help your child stay where he or she belongs - in school.
  
• Discrimination Law: Children and teens should never be bullied or discriminated against because of race, beliefs, gender, or sexual orientation. Children should not have to contend with bigotry and name-calling.
  
  If your child has experienced discrimination, we can help. There are vast and far-reaching education laws protecting children from intolerance and bullying. If your child is being bullied, we can help. Connecticut has a comprehensive anti-bullying law. We will work with schools to protect your child.

Contact Us

All children deserve to enjoy their full rights, at school and elsewhere. If your child needs legal representation regarding any aspect of education law, or if your child is being treated unfairly, we can help. Contact us at 203-854-5342.

The Law Office of Piper A. Paul, LLC
10 Wall Street
Norwalk, CT 06850
Phone 203-854-5342

The Law Office of Piper A. Paul, LLC, serves all of Connecticut and parts of New York including but not limited to the cities of Norwalk, New Canaan, Darien, Stamford, Fairfield, Weston, Greenwich, Trumbull, Stratford, Milford, Norwalk, Richfield, Bethel, Brookfield, Danbury, Cranbury, Rowayton, Southport, Easton, Greenwich, Monroe, Redding and Ridgefield, and Fairfield County, New Haven County, and Litchfield County, Connecticut.