Document Type

Report

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

This protocol is intended to guide attorneys through the strategic decisions they will need to make while representing parents in child protective cases. The protocol does not provide a comprehensive action-step checklist. Parents’ attorneys can find that kind of guidance in other resources, including the “How-To-Kit: Representing Parents in Child Protective Proceedings” by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education; “Guidelines for Achieving Permanency in Child Protection Proceedings” by Children’s Charter of the Courts of Michigan; and the American Bar Association’s “Standards of Practice for Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse and Neglect Cases.”1 For its part, this protocol delves more substantively and subjectively into the choices that will confront attorneys and their parent-clients. We hope that the protocol will provide a useful decision-making framework for parents’ attorneys who must grapple with the host of complexities inevitably present in child protective cases.


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