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Kinship Foster Care: A Relatively Permanent Solution, Marla Gottlieb Zwas Jan 1993

Kinship Foster Care: A Relatively Permanent Solution, Marla Gottlieb Zwas

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Kinship foster care is intended to provide substantially the same standard of care as children receive in placement with unrelated foster parents. In practice, however, the two differ enormously in New York City. Frequently, agencies place foster children in the homes of relatives with little regard for the adequacy of those homes. This Note evaluates the existing kinship foster care system, and examines the possibility of addressing the program's problems by creating a new legislative category for kinship guardians.


Family Law 1960 Survey Of New York Law: Part Four--Torts And Family Law, Roger J. Goebel Jan 1960

Family Law 1960 Survey Of New York Law: Part Four--Torts And Family Law, Roger J. Goebel

Faculty Scholarship

This year was one of quiet evolution rather than of substantial progress in the area of family law. The event having the greatest effect on the average citizen was undoubtedly the raising of the marriage license fee in New York City to three dollars. The most noteworthy of the other minor legislative changes were an egalitarian enactment forbidding wives from contracting to abrogate their duty of support of incapacitated husbands and an authorization of resident parole centers for paroled juvenile delinquents whose home life is inadequate .