When a Child Needs a Lawyer
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Authors
Brooks, Catherine M.
Issue Date
1990
Volume
23
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|This essay speaks to that lawyer who has just received a first time appointment as a guardian ad litem to represent a child. The thoughts which form this essay come out of my half-decade of experience in the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender's Law Guardian Program where I represented children who were the subjects of family court complaints brought by the state social service agency against their parents, alleging abuse, neglect or abandonment. For the most part, my experience as a law guardian was with the family part of the civil court. On occasion, I moved to intervene in companion criminal actions that were brought against my clients' parents. While my comments are directed to the guardian ad litem who is before the family court on behalf of a child whose parents' actions are about to be scrutinized by that court, many of my remarks can be applied to the representation of a victim-witness child before the criminal court...
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23 Creighton L. Rev. 757 (1989-1990)
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Creighton University School of Law