October 2016

Children

Training Model Teaches Best Practices and Improves Child Attorney Behaviors

Claire Chiamulera

An evaluation of the ChildRep Best Practice Model finds it ingrains best practices and positive attorney behaviors in two states.

Children

Congressional Briefing Highlights Children’s Right to Counsel

Sally Small Inada

A recent congressional briefing called for representation for ALL children in legal proceedings.

Children

ABA Policy Seeks to End School-to-Prison Pipeline

Claire Chiamulera

Ending disciplinary actions against students that result in criminal justice system involvement is the goal of a recently passed ABA policy resolution.

Children

Good Relationships with Parents May Benefit Children’s Health Decades Later

Growing up in a well-off home can benefit a child’s physical health even decades later — but a lack of parent-child warmth, or the presence of abuse, may eliminate the health advantage of a privileged background.

Children

Children’s Hearing Milestones

Knowing children's hearing milestones can help you spot hearing difficulties.

Children

New York Court of Appeals Allows Standing for a Nonbiological, Nonadoptive Partner to Seek Visitation and Custody

Emily Peeler

The New York Supreme Court consolidated two cases in which nonbiological, nonadoptive partners planned to conceive a child and share parental responsibilities raising that child with the biological parent, granting them standing to seek custody and visitation if they agreed with the biological parent to conceive and raise the child as co-parents.

Children

New Jersey Supreme Court Grants Indigent Parents Right to Counsel in Private Adoptions

Emily Peeler

An indigent parent in a contested private adoption proceeding has a due process right to appointed counsel, triggered when a parent formally objects to the decision to proceed with an adoption.