Introduction
Adoption law is controlled for the most part by state law. All 50 states have statutes governing the adoption process - the means by which a legal parent-child relationship is created between individuals not biologically related.
Filled with unique strategies for creating a family, this book shatters the negative myths of the adoption process and tells couples everything they need to know to adopt successfully within a year.
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Adoption Law News Stories
Bar to Felons Adopting is UnconstitionalLaw News Network
A New York judge has become the second to strike down as unconstitutional a state law barring persons with violent felonies on their criminal records from adopting children.
Web Sites Face Child Policy
Changes
Newsworthiness Outweighs
Privacy Claim
Web Sites Scramble to Meet
Child Privacy Law
Zero Tolerance: Does
It Protect or Harm Kids?
Computer to track foreign students
Lower
Standard to Remove Children Advocated
Can't Bargain Away Child Support Obligations
Grandparents Rights On the Table
The Social Security Administration
Several Web sites are starting
to revamp the way they do business with youngsters as they prepare for a new federal privacy law aimed
at protecting children online.
New York Law Journal
The New York Court of Appeals
held that newsworthiness trumps New York privacy law in a case where a 14-year-old girl's picture was
used without consent to illustrate a magazine column on teenage sex and drinking.
New Law Protects Kids' Personal
Information
A year after the massacre at
Columbine High School, parents, students, educators and safety experts remain deeply divided over
whether Draconian discipline is necessary -- or effective -- to keep violence out of schools.
Immigration officials are
readying a $43-million computerized system to track all 500,000 foreign students in the United States
under a program inspired by the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center.
New York Law
Journal
Urging appellate
courts to reconsider and possibly lower the standard under which a parent may be deprived of a child,
New York Family Court judge has rejected the recommendations of a law guardian that a 5-year-old boy be
returned to his mother.
Law
News Network
A mother cannot
"bargain away" her child's right to financial support from his father just to try to convince a man to
get her pregnant, a Pennsylvania court has ruled.
Law News
Network
The Supreme Court is
deciding visitation rights for grandparents.
Excellent benefit
information
Information on international
adoptions, and international parental child abduction.
Basic program information,
reports, news and announcements.
Information on Administration
for Children and Family Programs and Administrative Services
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Introduction to the law governing the adoption process.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Paying or receiving, you need to understand the concepts.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Custodial parents, joint custody, and related topics are covered in this section. An introduction and overview of the area.
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
An Introduction to Education Law.
There are four forms of child maltreatment: emotional abuse, neglect, physical abuse and sexual abuse.
A legal survival guide for teenagers
This pamphlet will assist you in understanding some of the basic adoption laws and procedures in the state of New York
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
"The purpose of alimony is to avoid any unfair economic consequences of a divorce, even after property is divided and child support..."
Adoption Law Cases and Statutes
Adoption Law Sites from Yahoo!
Adoption Law Resources from Google
Before you pay that scholarship consultant, you might want to read this.
An excellent overview of the structure and procedure of Family Court from the New York Courts, which also provides an overview of how family courts work in general.
Oregon
Court Upholds Law Giving Adoptees Access to Birth Records
A law giving adopted people access to their birth records has been unanimously upheld by an Oregon appeals court. The law was the first in the nation passed by voters, according to reports.
Media Hype Leads to 'Misguided' Campus Policies
Keeping Newborns Safe From Con Artists and Kidnappers
Researchers Tell Cops to Look Out for Signs
High-Risk Behavior Increases When Parents Are Gone
Describes what rights parents retain when their children are in foster care.
A new federal law has created stringent privacy guidelines for Web sites catering to kids under 13. Sounds good on paper, but will it really work?
What To Do If Your Children are Taken
Away by the Administration for Children's Services
Outlines the right to a hearing if a parent's children are taken away from them by this NYC agency. This document is also available in Spanish. From Bronx Legal Services.
Explains the rights of teenage parents, who are themselves in foster care, to their children.
Time Magazine
In a federal appeals panel ruling last week that no one could remove Elian from the U.S. before a May 11 hearing in the same court, the judges appeared to portend a new issue, seeming to claim an unexpected new right for six-year-olds to press their cases.
Barbara Benham Tye
Nevermind the politicians--public education's 'deep structure' protects familiar ways.
Admissions panels say the students are better prepared
Office.com
Businesses change their habits as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act takes effect.
Law.com
A school district cannot selectively enforce drug testing of students who are involved in extracurricular activities or seek driving and parking privileges
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that police should have limited access to medical tests performed on pregnant women. How will this decision affect doctors, hospitals, police and patients' privacy?
Parents who are contemplating divorce often have many concerns about who will have custody of the children and how the costs of raising them will be divided. Even when a divorce is "friendly," each parent is advised to seek out his or her own lawyer to be sure their rights and those of the children are protected. Traditionally, individual states have regulated family law matters, such as marriage, divorce, or child custody. Over the past two decades, however, there has been a trend for states to adopt uniform laws governing child custody and support to reduce the amount of variance from state to state. While the following information offers an overview of child custody and support guidelines, a lawyer can explain the specific laws of your state. Topics include: Deciding factors in awarding child custody; Issues surrounding visitation; Setting guidelines for child support; Adjusting child custody arrangements or the amount of child support