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Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Legal Issues Involving Children, Robert E. Shepherd Jr.
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Legal Issues Involving Children, Robert E. Shepherd Jr.
University of Richmond Law Review
This article examines the pertinent legislative and judicial developments of the past year that have effected juvenile law in Virginia. Specifically, this article discusses new laws and amendments passed by the Virginia General Assembly with respect to juvenile delinquency, non-criminal misbehavior, and termination of parental rights. Part IV discusses changes to Title 22.1 of the Virginia Code that affect school disciplinary matters. Part V examines developments in the area of juvenile mental health. Finally, Part VI discusses various miscellaneous developments affecting youth abortions, teenage driving, parental negligence in the tort context, and a significant amendment made to the Comprehensive Services …
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Legal Issues Involving Children, Robert E. Shepherd Jr.
Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Legal Issues Involving Children, Robert E. Shepherd Jr.
University of Richmond Law Review
The past year generally has been another quiet one for children's legal issues in Virginia, although it was a busier than normal year in the United States Supreme Court with the grandparents' visitation case, the Texas high school football game prayer case, a significant Title I case involving the provision of instructional material to religiously operated schools, and the gay Boy Scout leader case. Not as much occurred at the state level, with little legislation of great significance to children and youth being enacted at the 2000 General Assembly session. However, a succession of cases interpreting and applying Baker v. …