Representing Children in Families

By training and experience, children’s attorneys are in a unique position to understand how legal systems help and harm children and their families. Children’s attorneys can, and often do, advocate across a wide range of systems, including those involving legislatures, state agencies, and courts in order to effectuate meaningful changes in justice for children. Interdisciplinary collaboration can be beneficial to this advocacy. The recommendations in this part address areas in which children's attorneys and their allies might advocate for change and include reforms that will require the enactment of new laws, rules, and written policies by courts, administrative agencies, and legislative bodies.