Children’s Issues
When handling an adoption case, the family lawyer guides the client through the types of adoptions, determining the applicable laws for a particular adoption, to ensure that it can be legally finalized in that jurisdiction. Now updated, this is an accessible resource for handling all aspects of an adoption case. Making it an useful desk reference, it explains the fundamentals of adoption law and provides detailed information, advice on client consultations, guidance for each step in the legal process, and an array of sample forms.
Children are the central focus in any custody case. Frequently, however, parents, lawyers, and even judges, lose sight of this. Opinions are evolving about how to keep the child as the case’s focus. One such opinion believes a child's voice should play a key role in any custodial arrangement. This opens a wide range of questions and concerns: why should we listen to a child, what potential concerns exist when listening to them, and how do we solicit their opinions? This book is written provide a framework for addressing those questions and providing the most productive answers.
This clearly written guide provides family law practitioners with the practical knowledge and tools they need to analyze the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act (UCCJEA) and the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA).
How do you identify a child alienated by one parent against the other? This practical guide discusses all aspects of a case where an alienated child may be involved, from identifying the process to making the presentation in court.
According to recent statistics, the number of both reported and substantiated child sexual abuse cases continues to increase. As a result, it is highly probable that most family law practitioners and judges will be involved in a case where an allegation is raised regarding sexual contact or activity between the child and a member of the child's family or household. Child Sexual Abuse in Civil Cases by Ann M. Haralambie cuts through the clutter of assumptions, myths, and preconceived ideas to provide a balanced, informative, and ultimately strategic guide to handling cases of abuse in non-stranger situations and the legal interventions available to the practitioner.
Create a developmentally and age appropriate parenting plan that meets the needs of children at the time of divorce. This is an effective resource for advising clients in developing parenting plans that change over time to adapt to the best interests of the child. It explores creating schedules of alternate parenting time with the best interests and developmental needs of the child considered first.
The Hague Abduction Convention, Second Edition, provides a clear explanation of how the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction works in the United States.
A respected legal resource, The Indian Child Welfare Act Handbook provides a comprehensive source to assist lawyers, social workers, counselors, and others whose professions and interests involve them with Native American children. This updated edition incorporates the hundreds of new legal decisions since the last edition, including the impact of the recent Department of Interior’s ICWA regulations and two critical Supreme Court decisions. The authors examine case law from courts around the country – this is an issue not confined to reservations and their border towns.
To facilitate the creation of high-quality parenting plans, this book combines practical considerations along with extensive research, theory, and scholarly debate to present a thorough, focused, and useful guide for attorneys and related professionals. Beginning with the basic considerations for an effective plan, further chapters offer tools for attorneys and others to craft appropriate and workable plans for their clients.
A unique family law resource, this book by a psychologist with extensive experience in working with children, and an attorney who almost exclusively represents children in dependency court matters, reflects the real-world issues that are critical for working with child clients in dependency and family court settings. This is a clearly written and logical resource accessible to lawyers and related professionals at any level of experience.
This book takes a practical look at what special needs are, how they are relevant in the arena of divorce, and what lawyers can do to make the system work better for these children and their families. It examines how child support guidelines and standard visitation schedules often don't meet the needs of special needs children, and provides a model child support chart, parenting plan, and modification for these cases.