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Defending So-Called Bad Parents

What should defenders do when parents have a history of an incident of bad parenting behavior or bad parenting decision? What if the parent simply has criminal history or a history of being incarcerated even though the crimes are ...

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Bias & Character Evidence in Bench Trials

This practice advisory provides a curated overview of character evidence related to bias and stereotypes and an overview of empirical research about cognition bias and their impacts on judicial decision making. This advisory is fo...

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Setting the Scope of the Legal Representation

This practice advisory is for attorneys providing indigent defense services, including public defenders and counsel practicing in law firms holding public defense contracts. The information contained herein is intended to serve as...

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Nuts & Bolts: Forming and Ending the Attorney-Client Relationship

This practice advisory is for attorneys providing indigent defense services, including public defenders and counsel practicing in law firms holding public defense contracts. The information contained herein is intended to serve as...

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Fighting For Family Integrity

This practice advisory accompanies the WDA IPP live webinar held on November 14, 2025.   This training is for family defenders, who are interested in protecting the parental fitness presumption as a means to defeat family separa...

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Practice Advisory-Changing or Removing Postconviction (RCW 10.99) Orders

This practice advisory is for criminal defense attorneys, postconviction defense attorneys, people sentenced for misdemeanor and felony offenses with a “domestic violence” special designation, and people sentenced to community...

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DCYF Must Pay Costs of Parent-Child Visits and Contact Including Travel

Incarcerated parents often experience barriers to contact visitation and other forms of contact with their children. This happens even when child-friendly visitation settings are available at their facility. One of those barriers ...

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Black and Indigenous Children and Families Are At Heightened Risk of Harm In WA’s Family Policing System

This research memo is intended for any practitioners needing to document for or to educate judicial officers or other systems stakeholders about the heightened risks of childhood abuse and violence and other harms experienced by s...

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Practice Advisory-Carceral Agency Denial of Visits

This practice advisory is intended to describe the legal rights and jurisprudence governing how carceral agency employees act to infringe partially or fully upon incarcerated parent-child relationships, either on a temporary or pe...

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Attorney’s Legal Staff Are Entitled to Confidential Communications With (Prospective) Clients

This practice advisory is for attorneys and their staff, representing people who are incarcerated or detained, and who may be entitled to court appointed counsel or may qualify for free or low-cost legal representation in criminal...

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