parental rights

Beginning next month some residents of low-income neighborhoods will soon be better informed of their rights when CPS comes knocking.

Minnesotans who've had parental rights terminated can petition to restore them. But most are denied, data from the Judicial Branch shows. 

The law allows some parents who've lost parental rights to contact their children, even those who have been adopted into other families.

The city's Administration for Children’s Services sought changes that advocates say essentially gutted CPS reform bills.

A NY bill would require social workers to tell parents of their due process rights at the start of an investigation for child maltreatment.

A Texas bill that aims to improve due process protections for parents involved in child welfare cases is headed to the governor's' desk.

A new Minnesota law gives people facing termination of parental rights guaranteed access to appeals counsel and other services.

Under a new bill in Texas, CPS caseworkers would have to notify parents of their legal rights at the beginning of an investigation.

Legal counsel should be guaranteed, especially when your rights as a parent are on the line, writes Kenyon Lee Whitman.