Children & Family
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This note discusses the adverse impact Olmstead actions have on persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It argues for these actions to be brought on an individual basis.
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This comment analyzes Ohio's Safe Harbor Law in the context of Alexis Martin's court case, examines recent changes to that law, and proposes additional amendments to that law.
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A discretionary look at Ohio's Mandatory Binder laws in the juvenile system.
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Parents with disabilities, particularly those with intellectual disability and/or mental illness, are disproportionately represented in the child protection system.
Child welfare and judicial systems, while well-intentioned, are failing our older foster children—defined as children twelve years of age and older.
In the past two decades, there has been increased recognition of sibling relationships as crucial, particularly for children who are removed from their birth parents.
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Until recently in the United States, legal parentage, prompting both childcare opportunities and child support obligations, chiefly arose within opposite sex marriages and from state-supervised formal adoptions.
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The disproportionate representation of children of color in child welfare and foster care today did not happen overnight.
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A proposal on what should be done when something goes wrong with the procedure for adopting children outside the United States.
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An exploration where child welfare cases become unsafe to return the minor child to their parents.
A guidance on which state actions are discretionary and which are ministerial in public child welfare service law.
A focus on the larger incongruence of Ohio's limited guardianship statute, and the case law construing it, to being to provide a way forward.