Family Law

Legal help for those leaving foster care
The Texas Foster Youth Justice Project (FYJP), which provides free legal services to current and former foster youths, in December published a guide for those transitioning out of foster care, says FYJP director Mary Christine Reed...

Recent CRS Reports: Alien Smuggling, Statutory Individual Income Tax Rates, Youth Transitioning From Foster Care, Unauthorized Aliens' Access to Federal Benefit
May 22, 2008 - Alien Smuggling: Recent Legislative Developments May 21, 2008 - Statutory Individual Income Tax Rates and Other...

Reduced Pregnancy Rates and Supervised Foster Care
Daily Women's Health Policy Report: Closely Supervised Foster Care Linked With Reduced Pregnancy Rates for Delinquent Teens, Study Says: Teenage girls with a history of delinquency who were placed in individualized foster care programs were less likely than their peers...

Pregnancy Rates Alarmingly High Among Teens In Foster Care
Time Magazine: Teen Pregnancy: Reaching Epidemic Levels in Foster Care, by Amy Sullivan: What's tougher than being a pregnant teenager? Try being a pregnant teenager in foster care...

Florida Biological Siblings Separated in Foster Care Although One Family Will Take Them All
Little Girl in foster care in Florida is adopted. Baby Boy is placed into foster care with different foster parents and they want to adopt him...

UCLA?S WILLIAMS INSTITUTE RELEASES NEW STUDY ESTIMATING COSTS OF KENTUCKY SB 68: BARRING UNMARRIED COUPLES FROM FOSTERING AND ADOPTING WILL DISPLACE OVER 700 CHILDREN; COST STATE $5.3 MILLION
LOS ANGELES ? Today, the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law released a cost estimate of Kentucky Senate Bill 68, ?The Child Welfare Adoption Act,? which seeks to prohibit unmarried couples from fostering or adoption children...

Planned Parenthood spearheads health care lobbying efforts
Joe Murray reports in The Bulletin: "The nation?s largest provider of abortions laid siege to Capitol Hill Thursday lobbying lawmakers to include 'women?s health' issues in the massive Obama health care plan...

CPPP: Foster kids face more school discipline
It's not particularly shocking that abused and neglected kids in foster care are more likely to be disciplined in school (and thus more likely to wind up in the juvenile justice system), but according to a new policy paper (pdf) by the Center for Public Policy Priorities, "31 percent of all [Texas] students in foster care received at least one discipline action versus 17 percent of the general student population...

Detroit mom wants $30 mil after boy starves to death in foster care, suit alleges
In a nutshell: The plaintiff put her son in foster care because she couldn't care for him...

FAMILY COURTS: The Citizen Foster Care Review Board needs volunteers to help Kentucky?s children
The Citizen Foster Care Review Board needs volunteers to help Kentucky?s children: Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Henry and Trimble counties Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Laurel County Volunteers needed to assist children placed in foster care in Christian County

Mitchell Report Summary
Report on Steroid Drug Use in Major League Baseball by Senator George Mitchell

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

How do i go bout geting a free laywer to sue the durham police department for drug raids and nothing is found?they have been in my house 4 or 5 times seems like every 4 months or so and breaking down my door tearing up m
They need a warrant to get into your house...if they never showed you one...you ...

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

Can collection agency call me for my mother debt that she never had?
Get an Attorney - quickly. Do not talk to the collection people. Do not tell the...

How to learn content of deceased parent's will?
go to the court house where your father died or the county he lived in. It is pu...

I had an account with GEMB/Select Comfort to buy a new bed back in 2005. After paying it off (in 2006), I requested they close the account. In January of 2008, I declared bankruptcy (chapter 7). The creditor was NOT list
if you did pay it off before the bankruptcy and it wasn't listed as a accou...

Foster Care Chile Molestation
Department of Children & Families pays $175,000 negligence settlement.

Child Abuse Settlement
The mother of 6-year-old Brandon Ford has accepted a $1.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that claimed the boy was severely brain damaged while in foster care...

Adult Care
Friendship Care Assisted Living ordered to pay $20,000 fine for facility violations and negligence.

Bank Website Security
New Report Finds Widespread Flaws

Mongoose Youth ATVs
Recalled By KYMCO Due to Loss of Speed Control

Operating Room Fires
Hundreds Injured During Surgery, New Report Shows