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Arizona Establishes Cabinet-Level Child Safety and Family Services Division

April 9, 2015 by Donald C. Cofsky

Arizona Creates Cabinet-Level Division to Monitor and Enforce Child Safety and Family Services In 2014, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer followed the precedent set by 10 other state chief executives, disbanding the state’s child protective services, seeking to replace it with an independent agency that would report directly to the governor’s office. Governor Brewer used an […]

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Foster Care Advisory Group Recommendations

March 24, 2015 by Donald C. Cofsky

Ohio Advisory Group Makes Recommendations to Attorney General In late 2012, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine put together a panel known as the Foster Care Advisory Group, a collection of child welfare expert tasked with taking a close look at the state’s child welfare system, and with making specific recommendations to increase the safety and […]

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Bureau of Indian Affairs – Revised Guidelines

March 18, 2015 by Donald C. Cofsky

On February 25, 2015, the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the United States Department of the Interior issued revised guidelines involving the placement of Indian children into foster care or the termination of parental rights so that the child could be placed for adoption. Those guidelines are to supercede those that had been in effect […]

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New Jersey Appeal Court issues opinion on the Indian Child Welfare Act

March 12, 2015 by Donald C. Cofsky

In February 2015 a three judge panel of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey issued an opinion involving application of the Indian Child Welfare Act and the requirement to notify an Indian tribe of a pending involuntary termination of parental rights. The New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency sought […]

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Federal Laws Related to Adoption

December 19, 2014 by Donald C. Cofsky

Federal Laws Governing Adoptions—The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children Though most laws governing child welfare are enacted by the state, there are federal laws and regulations that affect adoption. One of the most important is the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (the “ICPC”). An Overview of the ICPC The ICPC was […]

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