CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Selection & Implement. Hrg.
.........Sibling/Parental Visitation
............Parents/Relatives
4 Cards On This Topic:
  • Court may approve "kinship adoption agreement" allowing post-adoption visitation by birth relatives and child if agreement found to be in best interests of child; effect of ICWA.
  • Mother lacked standing to raise sibling visitation issues and failed to show children's counsel's alleged conflict of interest actually affected parent's interests not children's.
  • Whether ?open adoption’ [postadoption parental visitation] viable after terminating parental rights depends on facts; should not be considered in abstract for first time on appeal.
  • Parental visitation during reunification period.