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Monday, August 07, 2006
Indiana Courts - "Families belong under one roof"
"Families belong under one roof" is the headline to this editorial today in the Indianapolis Star. Some quotes:
[A] judge would handle every matter related to a family. A child welfare or a delinquency case, for example, could be pulled off the juvenile court docket and consolidated with a divorce case. By doing so, the judge can better tailor his rulings and even authorize counseling sessions that can keep children out of juvenile court and eventually prison.But while the family court would be able to pull child welfare cases from the juvenile court, the courts won't be combined, something opposed by juvenile court Judge Marilyn Moores.
The lack of court space within the City-County Building is one reason why Moores opposed handing off her docket to the family court. Doing so, Moores says, could force poor families to run between Downtown courts and the juvenile complex on Keystone Avenue.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 7, 2006 07:26 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts