Writing for Good Morning Wilton!

I will be writing a regular series of articles for my hometown publication, Good Morning Wilton.   For the most part (I think) they will focus on education, employment, and other issues that can have an impact on an individual basis. I love this aspect of my law practice, and I am happy to have this opportunity to help provide background on these areas of law, and hopefully demystify some things about the law.

My first article a month ago offered some background on approaching education issues.  This past week I wrote about residency issues in public schools in Connecticut.   Here’s the intro:

For most of us, residency is an issue we never really think twice about. But school districts do question residency in some circumstances, and any parent or guardian of a student on the periphery of “residency” in a school district can face difficult legal questions. Connecticut statutory law requires public schools to provide a free public education to “resident” students. This issue arises frequently enough in Wilton, often because families want to be able to send their children to Wilton’s exceptional schools. The issue of residency can arise in the context of a move, a temporary living arrangement, and a divorce, to name a few situations.