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Florida's Baker Act Laws: How Florida's Excessive Use Of Baker Acts Can Be Harmful To Children, Kaitlin Gibbs
Florida's Baker Act Laws: How Florida's Excessive Use Of Baker Acts Can Be Harmful To Children, Kaitlin Gibbs
Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic
The goal of this White Paper is to provide an overview of Florida’s Baker Act Laws. Additionally, this White Paper will show how the excessive use of Baker Acts in Florida can have harmful effects on children, especially those in the dependency system, and potential solutions to reform the Baker Act process.
A Game Theory View Of Family Law: Divorce Planning For A 500% "Family-Tax", Steven J. Willis
A Game Theory View Of Family Law: Divorce Planning For A 500% "Family-Tax", Steven J. Willis
UF Law Faculty Publications
Divorces involve money, which can prompt fierce legal battles. These include family obligations for child support, alimony, and property division. Small income changes can have huge consequences. For example, a $1,000 income increase can result in $5,000 of increased family obligations. A $10,000 increase can produce $50,000 of obligations. Or a $10,000 decrease can result in $50,000 of reduced obligations.
Fostering Faith: Religion In The History Of Family Policing, Elizabeth D. Katz
Fostering Faith: Religion In The History Of Family Policing, Elizabeth D. Katz
UF Law Faculty Publications
Each year in the United States, approximately 700,000 children live in foster care. Many of these children are placed in religiously oriented homes recruited and overseen by faith-based agencies (FBAs). This arrangement—as well as the scope and operation of child welfare services more broadly—is at a crucial moment of reckoning. Scholars and advocates focused on children’s rights and family integrity maintain that the child welfare system, increasingly termed the “family policing system,” harms children, families, and communities through unnecessary and racist child removal that is partly motivated by perverse financial incentives. Some call for abolition. Meanwhile, in a largely separate …