Parents Court Appointed Attorney for Dependency and Neglect Cases
The Iyer Law Office LLC is pleased to announce that its founder and principal attorney has received a contract by the State of Colorado Judicial Branch to act as court appointed counsel for parents in Dependency and Neglect (D & N) cases for the 13th Judicial District.
Dependency and Neglect is also called D&N for short. This is a civil proceeding where the State (Department of Social Services) alleges that one or more parents have failed to properly care for a child that the parent is responsible for.
D & N also includes cases where:
Dependency and Neglect is also called D&N for short. This is a civil proceeding where the State (Department of Social Services) alleges that one or more parents have failed to properly care for a child that the parent is responsible for.
D & N also includes cases where:
- the parent has abandoned a child;
- the parent has mistreated a child;
- the parent has abused a child;
- the parent has allowed another to mistreat a child without taking lawful means to stop such mistreatment and prevent it from recurring;
- the parent has allowed another to abuse a child without taking lawful means to stop such mistreatment and prevent it from recurring;
- the child lacks proper parental care through actions or omissions of the parent;
- the environment for the child provided by the parent is injurious to the child's welfare;
- the parent fails or refuses to provide the child with proper or necessary subsistence, education, medical care, or any other acre necessary for the child's health, guidance, or well-being;
- the child is homeless through no fault of the parent;
- the child is without proper care through no fault of the parent;
- the child is not domiciled with the parent through no fault of the parent;
- the child has run away from home;
- the child is beyond the control of the parent;
- the child tests positive at birth for
- Schedule - I controlled substance;
- Schedule - II controlled substance (but excludes where the positive test result is as a result of mother's lawful intake of such prescribed substance
- the parent has subjected another child to an identifiable pattern of habitual abuse; and
- such parent has been the respondent in another D & N proceeding in which a court has adjudicated another child to be neglected or dependent based upon sexual abuse, physical abuse, or a proper court has determined that such parent's abuse or neglect has caused the death of another child; and
- the identifiable pattern of habitual abuse and the sexual abuse or the physical abuse pose a current threat to the child.
- such parent has been the respondent in another D & N proceeding in which a court has adjudicated another child to be neglected or dependent based upon sexual abuse, physical abuse, or a proper court has determined that such parent's abuse or neglect has caused the death of another child; and
