So You’ve Given Birth to a Substance Exposed Newborn
By Deandra Arena and Isabel Ranney Imagine you have a friend, Chloe, a lawyer who was prescribed pain meds after a car accident four years ago and [...]
Both DCS and the Police have Questions for your Client—What Now?
By Gregg Woodnick and Isabel Ranney Originally Published in the Maricopa Lawyer, online edition available 08/08/21. Your client calls you saying the police and the Department of Child [...]
10 Years Post-Sandusky: CAPTA and Mandatory Reporting in Arizona
By Brad TenBrook and Isabel Ranney Originally Published 06/24/21 for the Maricopa County Bar Association. After Jerry Sandusky’s arrest for child sex abuse in 2011, states across [...]
How the Medical “Code of Silence” Affects Child Abuse Litigation
By Gregg Woodnick and Isabel Ranney Despite being the fifth-largest city in the United States, Phoenix only has seven board-certified pediatric orthopedic surgeons, five of whom work [...]
The Not-So Basics of Third-Party Visitation
By Markus Risinger and Isabel Ranney A person’s right to parent their children is a fundamental right under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The only way [...]
When straddle injuries are confused with child abuse
By: Gregg R. Woodnick and Isabel Ranney Imagine you are the mother of a six-year-old girl. After a day of playing at the park, you are getting [...]
So DCS has invited you to a Team Decision-Making Meeting (TDM): Now what?
By Deandra Arena and Isabel Ranney In the grand scheme of nearly indecipherable acronyms in child welfare investigations, one particular abbreviation stands out as being part of [...]