May was a big month at Child Justice! It kicked off with a well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award for Child Justice Founder and Executive Director, Eileen King, at the 2022 Battered Mothers Custody Conference! Read on to learn why Eileen started Child Justice nearly ten years ago. Then, we watched as Governor Hogan signed into law SB17, the bill that requires …
We are delighted that the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that a child’s physical and psychological safety is paramount in making decisions regarding the possible return of a child to his home country. On Wednesday, June 15, Justice Sotomayor delivered a unanimous opinion in Golan v. Saada, finding a court is not categorically required to examine all possible ameliorative …
Post-separation abuse can be defined as the ongoing, willful pattern of intimidation of a former intimate partner including legal abuse, economic abuse, threats and endangerment to children, isolation and discrediting and harassment and stalking. In this article published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, Kathryn J. Spearman provides a comprehensive insight into the phenomenon and a theoretical foundation to inform …
Monday, May 16, 2022 was a great day for Maryland’s children as Governor Hogan signed into law SB17 – Child Custody – Cases Involving Child Abuse or Domestic Violence – Training for Judges, a bill that requires judges and magistrates to have relevant training that will give them the necessary tools to assist them when hearing child custody cases involving …
Child abuse and sexual assault prevention is important any time of year, but it is truly highlighted during the month of April.
Child Justice Legal Director, Paul Griffin, was recently featured on a podcast with En(Gender)ed, giving his opinion on ‘It’s Worse To Accuse Than To Abuse.’As sourced from the article here:”On this episode, our guest is Paul Griffin, Legal Director at Child Justice, Inc., one of the few organizations in the country dedicated to ensuring a child’s right to be legally …
Former Child Justice client and child safety advocate, Annie Kenny, penned a powerful op-ed in the Washington Post, describing her four years in family court
President Trump proclaimed that October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. In his proclamation, President Trump called upon us to “marshal every tool at our disposal to continue the national, sustained, and coordinated campaign to end domestic violence forever.”
Giving Tuesday is NOT cancelled! Child Justice is responding to meet the needs of victims of child abuse and domestic violence.
Child Justice’s Legal Director, Paul Griffin, was recently featured on The Kojo Nnamdi Show talking about how claims of abuse and alienations impact custody cases and who ultimately wins.
