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Evidence for Family Lawyers CLE

June 14, 2012

On August 13, 2012, Allison C. Williams will be presenting with a panel of experienced Family Law judges and attorneys on Evidence Issues in the Family Part at...

DYFS Substantiations of Child Abuse – The Role of Corroboration

June 12, 2012

In DYFS v. T.L. A-0506-11T2, the Appellate Division entered several rulings about corroboration of children's statements of prior abuse. The Court noted that N.J.S.A. 9:6-8.46(a)(4) exists to alleviate...

DYFS Request for Services: Treatment or Entrapment

June 9, 2012

At the inception of every DYFS case, the agency will tell the parent to engage in "services" designed to remediate the condition that led to DYFS involvement. Services...

DYFS Cases Cannot Continue when the Court finds No Abuse or Neglect, Absent Parental Unfitness

June 3, 2012

The Appellate Division has now disapproved of the common practice of trial Courts keeping DYFS cases open for "monitoring", when the Court finds that DYFS did NOT prove...

No “Restraints” Allowed with Orders to Investigate

February 19, 2012

In a recent unpublished decision, New Jersey Div. of Youth and Fam. Svcs. v. L.C., DYFS conceded that where the agency seeks to impose restraints upon parental access,...

Sleeping Infact on Rail-Less Bed Near Radiator = Gross Neglect

May 11, 2011

On May 10, 2011, in New Jersey Div. of Youth and Family Servs v. A.R., the Appellate Division reversed a trial Court's finding that the act of leaving...

To Equal Child Abuse, “Excessive Corporal Punishment” must be … well… Excessive!

June 13, 2010

On June 2, 2010, the Appellate Division issued its first published decision on the issue of what constitutes "excessive" corporal punishment. In DYFS v. K.A., the Court noted...

New Jersey Supreme Court issues Pro-DYFS Ruling

April 1, 2010

On March 31, 2010, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued its ruling in Division v. M.C. III., reversing the Appellate Division's pro-defense ruling in October 2008 that certain...

Wounded Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse by Richard Wexler

April 1, 2010

"The war against child abuse has become a war against children," charges Wexler, a reporter for the Albany, N.Y., Times Union , in a well-argued, in-depth study of...

Allison C. Williams becomes the first African American Certified Matrimonial Law Attorney

March 17, 2010

In between litigating on behalf of good people, parents wrongfully and aggressively accused by the Division of Youth and Family Services of abuse and/or neglect, I somehow found...

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