Above documents are in Word document format.

Often the attorneys who are best qualified to defend a respondent parent are the underpaid, understaffed, under-respected attorneys who take court appointments for a living. They generally know the twisty trails in this odd bog of the law, where litigation attorneys, business attorneys, criminal attorneys, and divorce attorneys may wander into deep water.

Who can begin a D&N? What discovery and pre-trial statements are required or allowed? Will the state pay for a parent's expert and when? Is a parent's expert protected by privilege? When? Which privilege? Does an admission mean the DA will come knocking? When can we appeal? What did the duty magistrate do yesterday?

The materials above answer some of those questions but certainly not all and probably not for long. The materials above are, again, for attorneys use and assume the reader has at least a Juris Doctor's feel for due process and the vagaries of judges.