Introduction to Family Law Quarterly, Volume 54, Number 1

• Author: Lisa F. Grumet

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Introduction to Family Law Quarterly,

Volume 54, Number 1

Many Family Law Quarterly     

theme. This particular issue was not planned in this way, but, rather, it

features three independently submitted articles that all recommend

changes in policies and practices pertaining to child welfare. The title

of the issue, Preserving Families: Parent Representation, Immigration

Reform, and LGBTQ+ Rights, embodies this theme, as well as the range

of issues addressed by the authors.

  

Able to Safely Reduce the Time Children Spend in Foster Care, Professor

         

representing individual parents in child welfare proceedings. Professor

Guggenheim is a leading advocate and scholar in the area of child welfare





and/or parent advocates as well as attorneys. In addition to their in-court

        

with child welfare agency personnel. They may also help clients to access



immigration needs.

As documented in a prior article co-authored by Professor Guggenheim,

    

outcomes than solo practitioners in that children whose parents were

        

         

through interviews of multiple practitioners and parents. The article

published in this issue of FLQ     

  

individual cases. As Professor Guggenheim writes, the article “bring[s] to

life the proactive nature of the multidisciplinary practice” and shows how

it succeeds.

The second article, by Claudio J. Perez, is titled How U.S. Policy Has

Failed Immigrant Children: Family Separation in the Obama and Trump

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