A Judge’s Guide

MANAGING THE CHILD CUSTODY CASE
42
See Marvin Ventrell, Legal Representation of Children in Dependency Court: Toward a
Better Model – The ABA (NACC Revised) Standards of Practice, NACC Children’s
Law Manual Series (1999).
43
Barbara Ann Atwood, The New (and Improved) Uniform Representation of Children in
Abuse, Neglect, and Custody Proceedings Act: Bridging the Divide Between Pragmatism and
Idealism, 42 FAM. L. Q. 1 (2008).
44
See Appendix 4 of this Guide.
45 29 Fam. L. Q. 375 (1995).
46 NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JUDGES, RESOURCE
GUIDELINES: IMPROVING COURT PRACTICE IN CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT
CASES (1995), available at http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/resguid.pdf
47 Russell Engler, And Justice for All – Including the Unrepresented Poor: Revisiting the
Roles of the Judges, Mediators, and Clerks, 67 FORDHAM L. REV. 1987, 2047 (1999).
48
Jona Goldschmidt, How Are Courts Handling Pro Se Litigants?, JUDICATURE,
July/August 1998, at 18.
49
Id.
50
Id.
51
See America Bar Association Commission on Interest on Lawyer’s Trust
Accounts, http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/iolta/.
52
Goldschmidt, supra note 48, at 21.
53
STANDARDS RELATING TO TRIAL COURTS § 2.23 (American Bar Association
1992).
54
Id. at § 2.23 cmt.
55 THE JUDGE’S BOOK, supra note 2, at 37.
56
Judge Tom Warren, How to Remain Sane in Small Claim’s Court, or an Anti-
Harassment Hearing, or any Pro Se Proceeding, JUDICIAL DIVISION RECORD, Fall
1999, at 4.
57
Telephone interview with Judge Kathleen O’Ferrall Friedman. Conducted by
Heather Davies, ABA Center on Children and the Law (June 2, 1999).
58
See http://www.abanet.org/abanet/child/home.cfm (highlighting the court
improvement activities of participating states).
59
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JUDGES, PUBLICATION
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, VICTIMS OF CHILD ABUSE PROJECT, RESOURCE
GUIDELINES: IMPROVING COURT PRACTICE IN CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT
CASES 14 (National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges 1995); see also
BARBEL INHELDER &JEAN PIAGET, THE GROWTH OF LOGICAL THINKING
FROM CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE (Basic Books 1958); JEAN PIAGET,
JUDGMENT AND REASONING IN THE CHILD (Littlefield, Adams 1976).
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