Child Abuse and Neglect Cases: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding the System
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By Travis A. Cushman
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Children deserve our love, support and most of all our protection. Child Abuse and Neglect Cases: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding the System is roadmap for anyone that wants to help keep children safe.
This guide suggests practice standards to help judges, parents' attorneys, children's attorneys, CFS workers, GALs and family members ask the questions that need to be asked in every case. The author of the book, Travis Cushman indicates that if the strategies outlined in the book are followed, it should reduce the chance of costly formal litigation.
This book includes informative checklists such as:
Receiving an Initial Report of possible Abuse or Neglect
Danger Assessments – To Remove or Not to Remove
Family Functioning Assessment
TIA vs. TLC – Advantages and Disadvantages
Drafting an Affidavit in Support of a Court Petition
Show Cause Hearing
Mediation
Topics covered in the book include:
What is the "System"
Terms and Definitions
The Need for a Balanced and Neutral System
Biases – Inherent, Personal and Avoidable Ones
Children in the Courtroom
Show Cause Hearing
Mediation
Extension of Temporary Legal Custody
Hearing to Dismiss/Reunify
Guardianship Hearing
Termination of Parental Rights and Appeal
Roles of Parties Before and During Hearings
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