Tuesday Tips
- Tuesday’s Tip #29 -Mandamus Jan 2025
- Tuesday’s Tip #28 – Safety vs Case Plan Jan 2025
- Tuesday’s Tip #27 – ICWA Jan 2025
- Tuesday’s Tip #26 – Payment of Witnesses Jul 2024
- Tuesday’s Tip #25 – Poverty Oct 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #24 – Preserving Your Relationship with Your Client Sep 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #23 – Custody at Non-Secure Aug 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #22 – Discovery Part I, Pre-Adjudication Aug 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #21 – Constitutionalizing Continuances Jul 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #20 – To Withdraw or Not To Withdraw… Part II Jul 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #19 – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Jul 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #18 – To Withdraw or Not To Withdraw Jun 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #17 – Rylan’s Law Jun 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #16 – Addressing Prior Case Plans Jun 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #15 – Relinquishment May 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #14 – Continued Non-Secure Custody Hearings May 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #13 – Getting Evidence Into the Record May 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #12 – Preserving Constitutional Issues for Appeal Apr 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #11 – Appealing an Order Apr 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #10 – Reasonable Efforts Toward Reunification Mar 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #9 – End of Hearing Checklist Mar 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #8 – Cookie Cutter Plans Mar 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #7 – SCRA Mar 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #6 – Child Support Feb 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #5 – Delay in Entry Feb 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #4 – Releases Feb 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #3 – Visitation Once Closed Feb 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #2 – Incarcerated Parents Feb 2023
- Tuesday’s Tip #1 – Delay in Hearing Jan 2023
Monthly Memos
- Monthly Memo #6 – Business Records Hearsay Exception Jan 2025
- Monthly Memo #5 – ICPC Order for Expedited Placement Decision Jan 2025
- Monthly Memo #5 – ICPC Order Jan 2025
- Monthly Memo #5 – ICPC Task Tracker Jan 2025
- Monthly Memo #5 – ICPC and Relatives Jan 2025
- Monthly Memo #4 – Child Support Jan 2025
- Monthly Memo #3 – Residual Hearsay Jan 2025
- Monthly Memo #2 – ICPC Aug 2024
- Monthly Memo #1 Attachment – Order Denying Motion to Quash Jul 2024
- Monthly Memo #1 – Child Testimony Jul 2024
On the Civil Side
- New Ethics Opinion on Dual Role GAL–Attorney Advocates in Juvenile Proceedings Sep 2022
- A Guide to Relinquishments and Post-Relinquishment Review Hearings Jul 2022
- NC Supreme Court Addresses Jurisdiction in TPRs of Out-of-State Parents Apr 2022
- Staycation All I Ever Wanted: Why Parent Attorneys Should Consider Requesting Stays of TPR Orders Sep 2021
- A Minor’s Consent to Adoption: Where and in What Proceeding Is It Waived? Mar 2021
- NC Supreme Court Addresses ICWA for the First Time Oct 2020
- In re A.P.: A County DSS Director’s Standing to File an A/N/D Petition Is Not as Limited as Previously Held by the Court of Appeals Jun 2018
- It’s Complicated: Venue vs Jurisdiction in A/N/D and TPR Actions Feb 2017
- One Potato, Two Potato: The Rules of Civil Procedure in A/N/D and TPR Proceedings Feb 2017
- Abuse, Neglect, Dependency Actions Automatically Stay Custody Claims in Civil Actions Mar 2015
- Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency (A/N/D) Petitions: Sign and Verify Mar 2015
Other
- Ethical Dilemmas in Client Representation for DSS Attorneys in North Carolina Oct 2021
- When and How Criminal-Defense Attorneys Can Obtain Access to Confidential Child-Welfare and Juvenile Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Records Oct 2021
- Delinquency and DSS Custody without Abuse, Neglect, or Dependency: How Does That Work? Jul 2019
- Childhood Immunizations and the Role of a County Department of Social Services Jan 2015