By Daniel Pollack
ISBN-10: 0415943957
ISBN-13: 9780415943956
Social paintings and the Courts is a compendium of the newest and significant criminal circumstances in social paintings and social welfare. Its dissection and research of the most important circumstances makes it an outstanding device for instructing social employees to appreciate the criminal process and its operation. The e-book demonstrates how courts view and take care of the functionality, motion, and behavior of social staff and their companies. This moment variation contains extra case reviews, paying specific realization to contemporary instances on foster care and baby welfare. additionally, a brand new part on "References and additional Readings" has been extra to the tip of every bankruptcy in addition to an replace bibliography and net bibliography in order that readers may well simply locate supplementary details.
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Nance were fit to raise Mary Lila, she was temporarily placed with her father upon release from Harborview. After monitoring Mary Lila’s progress, the Juvenile Court ruled that it was in Mary Lila’s best interest to be placed with her father and the proceedings were dismissed. Ms. Nance appealed the decision. ISSUE: Does a juvenile court, having found a child to be dependent-neglected, have the authority to make a change of custody award? DECISION: Yes. Because the child was deemed dependent-neglected by sufficient evidence, the court had the authority to change custody arrangements for the child.
This reversal exhibits the judiciary’s conflict with gay parenthood and this new area of law (Pershing, 1994). Because the illegality of homosexuality in Virginia played a major part in the reversal, this might indicate that this state policy has a greater influence on the decision than the lower court had postulated. Thus, the extremely divergent views displayed in this case by different courts exemplifies society’s range of perspectives regarding this issue. REFERENCES & READINGS Guttery, E. (2002).
Kovalesky, A. (2001). Factors affecting mother-child visiting identified by women with histories of substance abuse and child custody loss. Child Welfare, 80(6), 749–769. Social work and the courts 12 Sherman v. Sherman 1994 Tenn. App. LEXIS 660 FACTS: This case concerns visitation rights between a father and his children. Patrick and Hazel were married in August 1980 and during their 7-year marriage gave birth to two daughters. Throughout, the family had contact with appellant’s homosexual brother and his companion.