Legal Ease: Social media evidence in family law cases

Legal Ease: Social media evidence in family law cases - Blogs - The Register-Mail:

Social Media has been a growing trend in the past decade, with sites continuing to pop up like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, MySpace, and Vine. Now with the click of a button, individuals can share their frustrations, successes, and mundane observations with family, friends, and strangers. This can be both an asset and a liability in family law matters.

Court Vacates Family Court Ruling Treating Fetus as a Child

Court Vacates Family Court Ruling Treating Fetus as a Child | New York Law Journal:

A Family Court judge's rulings that a fetus is a "child" under New York's Family Court Act have been vacated by a Manhattan appellate court.

ACF-Payments for Foster Care and Permanency 2010-2012

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICESADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIESFOSTER CARE AND PERMANENCY
State Tables-Pages 348

FY 2012 MANDATORY STATE/FORMULA GRANTS
PROGRAM:

Title IV-E Foster Care (CFDA #93.658)

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PROGRAM: Title IV-E Adoption Assistance (CFDA #93.659)

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PROGRAM: Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFDA #93.674)

Troubled Child Protective Services Under the Legislative Microscope Today

Troubled Child Protective Services Under the Legislative Microscope Today | News Radio 1200 WOAI:

A Legislative Committee today will look into what sorts of reforms are needed in the state's troubled Child Protective Services, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

Foster father's rape charges mark rare exception, advocate says

Foster father's rape charges mark rare exception, advocate says | Local News - KMBC Home:

EDGERTON, Kan. —The foster care system is reeling after a Johnson County foster father is charged with sex crimes against children in his care.

N.H. House Backs Bill Making Untreated Opioid Dependence a Trigger For State to Intervene

N.H. House Backs Bill Making Untreated Opioid Dependence a Trigger For State to Intervene | New Hampshire Public Radio:
The New Hampshire House Wednesday backed a measure that would allow the state Division of Children, Youth and Families to investigate parents suspected of having an opioid dependence. As written, the bill would exempt parents currently involved in treatment or actively seeking treatment. 

My Comment:  "As written, the bill would exempt parents currently involved in treatment or actively seeking treatment." Oddly enough, there are parent's in NH with open DCYF cases due to substance abuse who ARE in treatment. Other's have lost their children because they were in treatment and were ILLEGALLY Court ordered out of it in order to regain custody. Parent's ordered into Medical Detox which was non-existent in NH, making compliance an impossible task. Here is the piece of the Child Protection Act that has been used against parent's who neither neglected or abused their children and I'm quite sure will be used again and again because our Government let's DCYF get away with it:

2 Child Protection Act; Definition of a Neglected Child. Amend RSA 169-C:3, XIX(b) to read as follows:
(b) Who is without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for his or her physical, mental, or emotional health, when it is established that his or her health has suffered or is very likely to suffer serious impairment; and the deprivation is not due primarily to the lack of financial means of the parents, guardian, or custodian. I wonder how much money all those "Taken" children brought in to the State, not to mention how much more will be paid by the federal Govt. once this Bill passes.

California courts step up oversight of psychotropic medication use in foster care

California courts step up oversight of psychotropic medication use in foster care - San Jose Mercury News:

SAN FRANCISCO -- California's judicial leaders on Friday took a major step toward reversing the foster care system's rampant use of psychiatric drugs, approving a slate of new safeguards to make juvenile courts here the country's most careful and inquisitive monitors of psychiatric care for abused and neglected children.