Desmond Law Group, P.S.

04/14/2025

Come join us! We will be there in support! 😄

04/08/2025

04/07/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kun9EZmv52Y

Since its inception in 2020, the Certificate of Parental Improvement has been issued to more than 980 people. Historically, background checks were vulnerable...

12/10/2024

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11/29/2023

https://www.propublica.org/article/nyc-child-welfare-agency-warrantless-searches-lawsuit

Despite no evidence a mother mistreated her child, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services continues to enter her home without a warrant. She has filed a lawsuit, citing ProPublica’s reporting, arguing her rights are being violated.

10/19/2023

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/23/foster-family-biological-parents-adoption-intervenors

In many states, lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for custody of their children.

09/28/2023

https://ctmirror.org/2023/09/24/hartford-ct-toddler-death-poverty-housing-child-welfare-tabitha-frank-corneliuz/

Tabitha Frank's 2-year-old son Corneliuz died after falling from a window in July. But family hardships preceded the tragedy.

07/20/2023

Reunification Day News

A record number of Washington counties are hosting Family Reunification Day celebrations this summer, bringing parents and children together with judicial officers, child welfare workers, community members and others to recognize the hard work and the support that bring families back together after....

07/20/2023

https://www.propublica.org/article/shadow-foster-care-washington-children-parents

A ProPublica-New York Times Magazine story exposed a system with few legal protections for families. A first-of-its-kind bill aims to provide parents with free counsel when child protection workers try to move their kids without going to court.

02/17/2023

https://www.q13fox.com/video/1179669

A baby boy is rushed to the hospital with multiple broken bones. Pediatricians say it's child abuse, but his mother insists they are wrong. State law says she was entitled to a second opinion, but state officials took custody of her baby without one: "I missed all the milestones."

02/17/2023

Anahi Arenas

02/17/2023

Susan Gillen, Esq.