Sentences with phrase «ward of the 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.

The High Court made the children wards of court until further order.

By reference to principles laid down in two cases — Re F (orse A)(a Minor)(Publication of Information)[1977] Fam 58, [1976] 3 WLR 813, CA, and A v Liverpool City Council and anor [1982] AC 363 [1981] 2 WLR 948, (1981) 2 FLR 222 — both of which contain important judgments by Scarman (LJ and Lord respectively), and thanks to the silence on the subject of Lowe and White on Wards of Court (1986), Sir James had held that the police did not need court permission to interview a ward.

Ward of the Court A ward of the court is someone under the protection of the courts.

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.

No precedent is cited for an order under the inherent jurisdiction which prohibits contact with a whole class of persons (females under the age of 18) as opposed to a particular ward of Court.

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-.

The reports follow recently published details in which five girls - three of whom were 16 and two of whom were 15 - from Bethnal Green Academy, were made wards of court and had their passports removed, banning them from leaving the country.

Sometimes respite is provided so that foster parents can take a vacation (most foster children are wards of the court and can not leave their state).

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.

Mr Justice Hayden, who ruled on the ward of court cases, said that the risk of teenagers travelling to Syria was «as grave as it can be».

An independent student one of the following: at least 24 years old, married, a graduate or professional student, a veteran, a member of the armed forces, an orphan, a ward of the court, or someone with legal dependents other than a spouse.

Independent Student: An independent student is one of the following: at least 24 years old, married, a graduate or professional student, a veteran, a member of the armed forces, an orphan, a ward of the court, or someone with legal dependents other than a spouse.

Independent A student who is at least 24 years old, is married, is a graduate or professional student, is a veteran, has a dependent, or is an orphan or ward of the court.

Note that a child does not automatically become a ward of the court upon being incarcerated.

The ward of the court may have a guardian appointed by the court.

An independent student is one of the following: at least 24 years old, married, a graduate or professional student, a veteran, a member of the armed forces, an orphan, a ward of the court, someone with legal dependents other than a spouse, an emancipated minor or someone who is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

If the student is declared a ward of the court before the end of the award year, the student is considered to be an independent student for the award year and the student's status would need to be updated.

The key issue for financial aid purposes is that when a child becomes a ward of the court, no parent or other person is financially responsible for the child.

An independent student is one of the following: at least 24 years old, married, a graduate or professional student, a veteran, a member of the armed forces, an orphan, a ward of the court, or someone with legal dependents other than a spouse, an emancipated minor or someone who is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

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

The school financial aid administrator should ask for a copy of the court order that declared the child a ward of the court.

Often a minor becomes a ward of the court when the court determines that the child will be subject to abuse or neglect if they remain with the parent or if both of the student's biological or adoptive parents are deceased.

Although a ward of the court can have a legal guardian, having a legal guardian does not automatically make the child a ward of the court.

A legal guardian must have been appointed by the court for the child to be a ward of the court.

Legal guardians and foster parents are not financially responsible for a ward of the court.

Independent An independent student is at least 24 years old as of January 1 of the academic year, is married, is a graduate or professional student, has a legal dependent other than a spouse, is a veteran of the US Armed Forces, or is an orphan or ward of the court (or was a ward of the court until age 18).

Note that a child can be a ward of the court and still have contact with his or her biological parents or even still be living with the parents (albeit under court supervision).

If there is any confusion as to whether the child is a ward of the court or not, the financial aid administrator should ask for a letter from the judge clarifying whether the child is a ward of the court.

B) are orphans, in foster care, or wards of the court, at any time when borrowers are 13 years of age or older,

An independent student is one of the following: at least 24 years old, married, a graduate or professional student, a veteran, a member of the armed forces, an orphan, a ward of the court, or someo...

When in due course the child was not returned and LL announced that he had arranged to live in Singapore and brought divorce proceedings there, the child was made a ward of court here at the wife's instigation.

(1) There is no requirement for the police or any other agency carrying out statutory powers of investigation or enforcement to seek the permission of the court to interview a child who is a ward of court.

Provided that the relevant statutory requirements are complied with, the police or other agencies are under no duty to take any special steps in carrying out their functions in relation to a child who is a ward of court.

In Re a Ward of Court [2017] EWHC 1022 (Fam), [2017] Fam Law 725, Sir James Munby P considered whether the police needed court permission to interview a child who was a ward of 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.

(2) Where a child has been interviewed by the police in connection with contemplated criminal proceedings and the child is, or subsequently becomes, a ward of court, the permission of the court is not required for the child to be called as a witness in the criminal proceedings....

The fact that a child is a ward of court does not affect the powers and duties of the police or other statutory agencies in relation to their investigations.

Senior family judge Sir James Munby has issued guidance on radicalisation cases, following a number of cases where children at risk have been placed in foster care or made wards of court.

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.

She practiced extensively in the areas of child law and adoption, family law, mental health, wards of court and vulnerable adults.

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.

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

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

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.

A few years ago, a New Zealand case made headlines when the judge not only chastised the parents for their «very poor judgment» in naming their daughter «Talula Does the Hula from Hawaii», but made the child a ward of the Court.

Interesting is the fact that the child was at the time a ward of court, and the parents were still fighting for the child.