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Custody Battle Delays Mean Kids Grow Up in Family Court
Photo by: Marc Fader Jason was three years old when his family entered the family court in 2007. They’re still there. His parents sought the court’s help in deciding with whom Jason would live and...
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Does Poverty Cause Child Abuse?
Photo by: ACS A still from a child safety video on the website of the New York City Administration for Children’s Services. Cornell University released a large study last month positing that poverty...
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New Judges Help to Speed New York’s Family Courts, But Holdups Remain
Adi TalwarNYC Family Court Administrative Judge Jeanette Ruiz says the addition of nine new judges has reduced the pending caseload per judge from 525 cases in the beginning of 2015 to around 470 cases...
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Seeking Protection from Abuse, Via Video Chat
Adi TalwarThe program is overseen by the Office of the Statewide Coordinating Judge for Family Violence Cases led by Judge Deborah Kaplan. One morning last year, a middle-aged woman who had recently...
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CityViews: It’s Time to Provide Legal Help to Families Facing Child-Welfare...
Adi TalwarNew York County Family Court at 60 Lafayette Street. At the Center for Family Representation (CFR) we have defended close to 10,000 indigent parents who are summoned to family court by the...
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Tragedy, Advocates, Pols Paved Way for Bid to Keep Detained Youth Closer to Home
Spencer T Tucker/City HallMayor Bloomberg (joined by Deputy Mayor Linda Gibbs at far left, ACS commissioner Ronald Richter, second from right, and Probation Commissioner Vincent Schiraldi) marks start...
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Opinion: Domestic Violence Survivors Need Culturally-Sensitive Court Services
‘While the scourge of domestic violence is found within all communities, ultra-Orthodox Jewish women face additional and unique challenges. Understanding how someone’s culture heavily informs the...
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Opinion: Do We Really Support Children? NY’s Child Support System Says Otherwise
“While states like New York emphasize supporting vulnerable women and children as a priority, there has been too little focus on the need to improve the child support system to do so—especially within...
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Opinion: Attorneys for Children in New York Are in Crisis
“Attorneys are being forced to resign not because they want to leave, but because they cannot provide for their own families if they stay. Offices that were once inundated with job applicants for a...
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Opinion: The Harmful Impact of Invasive Child Welfare Investigations
“These rates of over-investigation are state-sanctioned family policing. Even where investigations are warranted and allegations are substantiated, the investigative process is often coercive and...
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