Recommended Titles and Treatises
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Adoption
Adoption and permanency guidelines : improving court practice in child abuse and neglect cases
140 pages. No updates available.
These guidelines are an effort to produce best practice recommendations for use in dependency cases involving abused and neglected children who cannot return to their parents. It includes a discussion of the permanency planning hearing, termination of parental rights and the appeals process.