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The Non-Lawyer Guardian Ad Litem In Child Abuse And Neglect Proceedings: The King County, Washington, Experience, Nancy Neraas
The Non-Lawyer Guardian Ad Litem In Child Abuse And Neglect Proceedings: The King County, Washington, Experience, Nancy Neraas
Washington Law Review
Part I of this Comment surveys the various theories of the role of the guardian ad litem in child abuse proceedings. Part II turns to the need for independent representation for abused children and the appropriate role of the guardian ad litem. It demonstrates that neither the state nor the parents can adequately protect the interests of abused children and concludes that a guardian ad litem plays an important role for the children. Part III outlines the Washington state child abuse legislation and discusses the use of guardians ad litem in Washington child abuse proceedings. This legislation provides the framework …
Community Property Law In The United States, By W.S. Mcclanahan (1982) And Community Property In The United States, By William A. Reppy, Jr. And Cynthia A. Samuel (1982), Harry M. Cross
Washington Law Review
These two books with almost identical titles serve similar purposes for two different audiences—the McClanahan treatise for the practicing lawyer, the Reppy and Samuel casebook for the law student (and professor). Both books present the current community property law of the several American states, and in both the coverage of the principles of community property law as that law has developed in the United States will facilitate comparative analysis. This coverage may also minimize the apparent provincialism of decisions in the several states, at least for those problems not already resolved and therefore constrained by stare decisis.