Juvenile Dependency
When your child has been removed by Child Protective Services
What To Do When A Child Has Been Removed From Your Home?
Working with an attorney who has been through this process can help you take the right steps to provide the best care for your child and move you towards getting them back into your care as quickly as possible.
Juvenile Dependency
Juvenile Dependency refers to legal matters that involve the removal of children from their parents by Child Protective Services. If your child has been removed from your care, you need an experienced attorney to assist you. An experienced attorney will ensure that the evidence to support the removal of your child from your care meets the legal standard. An experienced attorney can make sure you get the services you need in order to reunify with your child as soon as possible. An experienced attorney can help get your child placed with a relative instead on being placed in foster care and advocate for siblings to stay together. Elisabeth A. Lord has 22 years experience is representing parents and relatives who are going through this very difficult process. She and her team will guide you and help you whether you are a parent trying to reunify with a child, a parent trying to gain custody of the child if you were not the perpetrating parent or a relative trying to get or keep a child out of foster care.