Judges and Judiciary
Sep. 10, 2015
Judicial Council considers new forms for unaccompanied minor proceedings
A year after legislators clarified that state courts could make findings that unaccompanied undocumented children are eligible for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, courts seek guidance to streamline the process.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
One year after state legislators passed Senate Bill 837 in an attempt to help manage
the influx of unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America, attorneys
say that family law courts have been slower than others to issue orders finding that
the undocumented children were abused, neglected or abandoned in their home countries,
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