Rossi has practiced law for more than 40 years in the areas of family law and probate litigation. He previously ran for a seat on the Bexar County Probate Court No. 2 in 2018 and Bexar County Court at Law No. 3 in 2014.
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Why should voters choose you?
Experience, knowledge, temperament and education. Family law cases are at present the primary cases presented on the dockets of the Bexar County District Courts. I am board certified in family law, served as the first and founding President of the Family Law Bar Association-San Antonio, am a certified mediator and have extensive experience in all areas of this subject of law. Family law is a complex area of the law, requires study and experience to appreciate the different questions that arise in cases before the court. I have experience from Child Protective Services cases to complex tracing of separate property under various methods. Despite this experience, I learn something new daily either from the law as it evolves to accommodate change, the structure of the legal system or about resources that are available to help children and families. My volunteer efforts have been extensive to assist in this area from volunteering to mediate family law, children’s court, and guardianship/probate cases for those who apply for services with the Bexar County Dispute Resolution Center. I have also served on the appointment wheel as a guardian ad litem and attorney ad litem for children and parents in the Children’s Court. As part of my knowledge and experience, I have had the opportunity to continue to promote education by serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the annual seminar sponsored presently by the Family Law Bar Association–San Antonio, and as part of that education and service, I was asked to serve as the founding director and first president of the FLBA-SA.
What do you see as the top challenge facing our local court system, and how should it be addressed?
CPS Children’s Court. In addition to the number of cases filed in Bexar County, there are multiple problems in the CPS system, including the need for consistent therapeutic and educational care, time for full investigation and facts of parental rights termination trials and in placement and adoption. This requires judges who will be on site, working and handling cases on a more consistent basis and not just by assignment to associate judges. One solution is that when the district court needs to monitor a case to have the cases assigned to a judge who will take the time necessary to learn the history of the case, assist the children who are in the conservatorship of the department and who has a working understanding of the complex CPS/childcare system in Texas that has limited resources and high demand and need. In addition, for children aged out of the system and who have an incapacity that limits their ability to provide self-care or who that are not adopted or otherwise have family, friends or fictive kin who can assist and care for them to provide for a program of guardians for these children, now incapacitated adults. There needs to be coordination with the probate court guardianship system and the district courts for these special incapacitated children.
