Families who adopt children out of foster care in Indiana face potentially significant expenses that the state’s $2,000 ...

A Metro East attorney is preparing conditional guardianships for parents who are undocumented so if they are arrested and ...

All Tammarisk Lyman had to do to get her kids back from the state of Kansas, her lawyer repeatedly told her in emails, was ...

As news of Bucks star Khris Middleton's trade to the Washington Wizards spreads across Milwaukee, many are calling him a champion on the court, and in the community. The trade comes after Middleton ...

The legislation gives the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) more flexibility to certify relatives to become foster parents. It also puts an obligation on DCFS to use a ...

Change isn’t always easy, especially when you’re a teenager. It’s something Charles has become accustomed to over his three ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed a bill aimed at making it easier for relatives of children in the state’s care to get ...

One part of foster care and adoption is about to get easier. On Wednesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill that aims to ...

New groundbreaking legislation signed by Governor JB Pritzker will now allow the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services to place foster kids ...

A judge in West Virginia has ordered the new chief of a state agency and several of his subordinates to be assigned as Child Protective Services workers.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed the Kinship in Demand (KIND) Act, a new law aimed at helping grandparents and other ...

The new law puts an obligation on the Department of Children and Family Services to use a “kin-first approach” when placing ...