This matter involved a plaintiff’s claim that he developed reactive airway disease syndrome (RADS) from exposure to the fogging disinfectant HaloSpray. HaloSpray had been used to fog a room located ...

States are responsible for finding safe, permanent families for children in foster care, through reunification with the family of origin, adoption, guardianship, or other custodial arrangements with ...

This article discusses the evolution and ongoing challenges in New York’s child protective system, especially regarding permanency hearings and case delays. Recent reforms emphasize timely hearings to ...

Plaintiff’s non-retained experts are treating physicians, and their testimony at trial should be limited to their scope of treatment, diagnosis, and prognosis with respect to the injuries alleged.

Call me a “traditionalist,” but I propose that children flourish best in families. However, I’m not naive enough to believe that family can only be defined in a narrow sense. Children need at least ...

The Bair Foundation of Pennsylvania has been helping foster youth since 1967. Through its new innovative program, Path to Permanency, Bair is now able to provide services for at-risk families in the ...

This research study examined the experiences of birthparents, permanent parents, and mediators in permanency mediation following a state child welfare agency's recommendation for termination of ...

We have received text from H.R. 137: TCJA Permanency Act. This bill was received on 2025-01-03, and currently has 48 cosponsors. Here is a short summary of the bill: The TCJA Permanency Act seeks to ...

Object permanence is an old psychological concept coined by Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget who for the first time had seen this phenomenon in infants. You must have observed how when you hide a toy ...