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Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client
Melissa Brown and Lawrence Frolik
Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client provides specific answers and solutions to legal and practical questions and problems that arise in daily practice when representing elderly or disabled clients. This resource offers coverage across the full range of elderly or disabled client concerns, including: planning for Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance; medical decision-making and right-to-die issues; retirement and disability income planning; acute, chronic or changing medical conditions such as AIDS, Alzheimer's, strokes and mental illness. Includes practice aids such as official forms, model documents, detailed real-world examples, checklists for interviewing and planning, and a quick-reference glossary of technical terms, concepts, and acronyms.
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A history of child protection in America
John E.B. Myers
A History of Child Protection in America is the first comprehensive history of American efforts to protect children from abuse and neglect. The book begins in colonial times and chronicles child protection into the twenty-first century. Among the important nineteenth century events detailed in these pages are the rise of orphanages for "dependent" children, the "orphan trains" operated by the New York Children's Aid Society, the birth of the juvenile court, the reforms of the Children's Progressive Era, and the dramatic rescue of Mary Ellen Wilson, which led to the creation of the world's first organization devoted entirely to child protection, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Twentieth-century milestones include the gradual transition from private child protection societies to government operated child protection, the obscurity of child abuse from the 1920's to the 1960's, the "discovery" of child abuse in 1962, and the creation of the child protection system we know today.
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A Torts Anthology, 2nd edition
Julie A. Davies, Lawrence C. Levine, and Edward Kionka
This Anthology is designed to feature the pieces of torts scholarship that will best assist the reader with understanding tort law. Articles have been carefully chosen with the goal of making the literature of tort law accessible and comprehensible. The articles can assist with understanding of torts doctrines; they explain the doctrines in a context that is more complete and thoughtful than other sources a student might consult. The articles highlight the varying approaches available to analyze key issues and also introduce the reader to topics of current interest among writers.
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Deskbook on the Management of Complex Civil Litigation
California Judicial Council and J. Clark Kelso
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Natural Law and the Cultivation of Legal Rhetoric
Francis J. Mootz III
Natural Law and the Cultivation of Legal Rhetoric in Rediscovering Fuller Essays on Implicit Law and Institutional Design.
This essay appears in a book celebrating Lon Fuller's contributions to jurisprudence. I argue that Fuller's conception of secular natural law, designated as an "internal morality of law," lends welcome assistance to the effort to articulate a new direction in legal philosophy. I defend Fuller's natural-law approach from the common misinterpretations that it is either a hollow echo of the natural law tradition or an essentialist conception of law at odds with the legal-realist world that he helped to create with his doctrinal scholarship. By reading his famous, "The Case of the Speluncean Explorers," in a new light, I contend that Fuller's natural-law approach is best understood as an attempt to outline the social framework in which acquiring legal knowledge – defined not as the technical mastery of doctrine or the rationalistic apprehension of conceptual verities, but rather as a rhetorical-hermeneutical event that is a social achievement – is possible.
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A Mother's Nightmare - Incest A Practical Legal Guide for Parents and Professionals
John E.B. Myers
Protecting children from child abuse using the legal system can be a complicated and sometimes devastating process for parents. Suspecting sexual abuse, a mother may seek a divorce and custody, orùif already divorcedùrequest withdrawal of visitation rights. However, when unable to prove abuse, she may be labeled "hysterical" and jeopardize her case. A MotherÆs NightmareùIncest assists professionals and parents in reducing the likelihood that the legal system will backfire. Easy to read and including step-bystep strategies for success, this manual answers myriad critical questions asked by parents who encounter the possibility of incest, such as: + What happens to a child who experiences abuse? + What do I do if the abuse cannot be established? + How do I find out what my legal options are? + What can I do to keep emotionally balanced? + What will happen in the court system? While alerting readers to the very real dangers that await those who accuse a spouse of child sexual abuse, author John E. B. Myers helps parents and professionals navigate the current court system to work toward attaining victoryùand safety. He provides supportive and practical suggestions for documenting evidence and seeking an expertÆs advice. Myers demystifies the subject of incest and explains the requirements of the court system so that mothers will enter the legal arena prepared. This book is not only for mothers. Health professionals, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, pastoral counselors, and any other professional working to protect children from abuse will want to read and refer to A MotherÆs NightmareùIncest. Likewise, the book is also ideal for academics and students to use in courses that cover child abuse issues
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