Sentences with phrase «made wards of court»

Shafer, a salesperson with Lahaina Realty Inc. in Fort Myers, spends up to 30 hours a week working with children who've been made wards of the court due to parental neglect or abuse.

In this case, the boys having been made wards of court, their well - being would be appropriately monitored in their country of habitual residence.

A judge has now made her a ward of court so she can change the name, which she hated so much she refused to tell her friends, going by «K» instead, the BBC reports.

The child was born in England, made a ward of court, removed from the mother at birth by consent, named by the local authority and placed with foster carers.

Due to her brain injury, Brenda was made a ward of the court and she was assigned a deputy to look after her finances.

Not exact matches

Four days after a 72 - year - old retired government worker was brought to a southern California hospital's emergency ward by his 12 - year - old «companion,» a county welfare worker dropped in on the pair and initiated legal action to have the child made a dependent of the court.

Likewise, emancipation does not make a student a ward of the court.

He drew attention to FPR 2010 PD12D, which includes: «5.2 Where the police need to interview a child who is already a ward of court, an application must be made for permission for the police to do so...».

Perhaps of greater relevance in the enforcement context, in Re F (in utero)[1998] AC 641, [1998] 2 All ER 193, a local authority sought to make a foetus a ward of court in order that it might be protected from its mother.

Having discharged the interim care orders, the President made the children wards of court, giving the court the fullest possible range of powers to impose safeguards: «the courts, when exercising the parental power of the Crown, have, at any rate in legal theory, an unrestricted jurisdiction to do whatever is considered necessary for the welfare of a ward» (Re X (A Minor)(Wardship: Restriction on Publication)[1975] 1 All ER 697 at [706G]-RRB-.

In the end, the judge ruled that the children should be made temporary wards of the court and placed in the interim care of relatives who reside in Florida.

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn - out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, «Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the Court of Chancery, which

But I can also see that the Court would want to make this decision as domestic as possible to ward off the very substantial domestic criticisms that are already being made of the results of this decision.

In the light of the ward of court order, the father could not rely on Article 13 of the Hague Convention, which permitted the State authorities not to order the child's return, since Article 11 of Brussels Regulation II bis (on the enforcement of civil judgments) specified that a court could not refuse to return a child on the basis of Article 13 of the Hague Convention if adequate arrangements had been made to secure protection of the child after his or her return.

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The Judge made the 16 year old a ward of Court.

Martin Downs successfully represented Brighton and Hove City Council in an application to make a 16 year old boy a ward of Court and obtain orders to prevent him fighting in Syria's civil war.

In so doing, the court made two potentially important rulings: (i) Whether or not the threshold is crossed may well depend on the context; in a statement echoing one of the most famous dicta in the law of nuisance («what would be a nuisance in Belgrave Square would not necessarily be a nuisance in Bermondsey»: Sturges v Bridgman (1879) 11 Ch D 852, per Lord Justice Thesiger) it was suggested that what might not be harassment on the factory floor or in the barrack room might well be in the hospital ward, or vice versa.

A Children's Court order may have made you a State ward, placed you in the care of the Director - General or under the parental responsibility of the Minister.