Since 1997, legislation regarding children has been a moving target, and the legislative changes regarding foster children and their eligibility as qualifying dependents for personal exemptions, the child tax credit (CTC), and the earned income tax credit (EITC) are creating wide confusion. The Working Families Tax Relief Act (WFTRA) of 2004 created a uniform definition of "child" for purposes of the dependency exemption (IRC section 152 and 151), the CTC (IRC section 24), the EITC (IRC section 32), the dependent-care credit, and head-of-household status (IRC section 2(b)). An eligible foster child is included in the WFTRA definition of a qualifying child. The availability of a charitable deduction can be easily overlooked. The law requires the foster parents to claim the dependency exe...
PONTIAC - Livingston County sheriff's police are continuing the investigation into the death of a 4-year-old foster child as her family prepares for a Friday funeral. Sgt. Earl Dutko said Monday that the department is doing more follow-up interviews in the case. There have been no arrests, he said.
CULLOM - An investigation of allegations of child abuse against a Cullom woman whose foster child died May 3 has been expanded to include a second foster child. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services expanded its investigation to include a sibling of Kianna Rudesill, said DCFS spokesman Kendall Marlowe.
A court couldn't move a foster child from the household of a same- sex couple to a home with a "traditional" couple, the West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in a per curiam decision. A baby girl was born with drugs in her system and was placed in a foster home approved by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human resources when she was discharged from the hospital.
By Brigitte Weeks For The Washington Post
In February, the Children's International Institute hosted a conference titled "Healing The Traumatized Child." [Wendi Selby]'s dear friend and former coworker Sandra Chase invited her to speak. The thought of sharing such personal knowledge with a room full of strangers gave Wendi pause, but she accepted anyway. "Sandra never let me forget that as a survivor, I have a responsibility to share my story, for the benefit of teaching and setting things straight," said Wendi. She also told me that I had a right to speak up and more importantly, I had choices. I started speaking up and saying 'this isn't fair.' Ultimately, Wendi found herself without her siblings for the first time, a frightening situation. Her older siblings would return to frequent the neighborhood where they would visit t...
DENVER - A Colorado Springs toddler would still be alive if the state had more oversight of child protection programs, a witness told a state Senate committee on Thursday. Mary Ann Hartman said El Paso County child welfare officials didn't believe her in 2007 when she told them her neighbor, Jules Lynn Cuneo, was abusing Aliz?Vick, a 2-year-old foster child in Cuneo's care. Months later, Vick died from head injuries, and last month a jury convicted Cuneo of child abuse resulting in death.
That the young man whose fragile little nervous system could barely stand the closing of a door or the sound of laughter graduated high school with honors and is now a college student (Miami Dade College) comes as no surprise to Pauline and Ejazul Mohammed, "foster parents," according the system responsible for placing [Willie Singleton] with them, but simply "Mom and Dad" to Willie. So phenomenal is Willie's story that his final hearing was presided over by two robed jurists - Dependency Judge George Sarduy and General Master Steven lieberman. Sarduy technically presided over the case solo, but graciously shared his bench with lieberman, who had presided over several of Willie's routine hearings over the years. Pauline Mohammed, a former registered nurse, said her profession helped her...
New Jersey's child welfare agency has severed its five-year relationship with the Heart Gallery, a non-profit company that created nationally acclaimed traveling photo exhibits featuring hundreds of foster children in need of a permanent home, state officials confirmed. While crediting the Heart Gallery with helping locate sorely needed foster and adoptive parents, the Division of Youth and Family Services ended the relationship this month because it is changing its foster home recruiting strategy, according to Lauren Kidd, spokeswoman for DYFS' parent agency, the Department of Children and Families.
Los Angeles County has repeatedly failed to release documents related to the deaths of dozens of children in its foster system, violating a state law passed two years ago to promote public debate and disclosure, an independent investigator found. County officials, including Patricia Ploehn, director of the Department of Children and Family Services, largely agreed that at least 60 child deaths over the past two years should have been made public but were not.
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