Observing that child should not be made to feel as if he is being forcibly taken from one to the other, just to enforce decree of the court, the Punjab & Haryana High Court granted visitation rights.
Aarti Kaur Sidhu
Disability Rights Maryland
As an education staff attorney for Disability Rights Maryland, Aarti Kaur Sidhu advocates for the rights of students with disabilities. As the COVID-19 pandemic has created unique challenges, Sidhu has spent countless hours supporting families of students with disabilities. Through her work with the Maryland Coalition to Reform School Discipline, she advocated for positive school discipline reform in local school systems, the Maryland State Department of Education and the Maryland General Assembly. Sidhu believes her greatest accomplishment was getting sworn into the Maryland Bar.
“As the child of Asian immigrants, there are stereotypes about my perceived intellectual abilities and that my parents would have exceedingly high expectations regarding my professional career; however, that is not true in my family. In 1978, my working-class parents moved to Maryland from India to provide a better life for me and my siblings. Their only expe