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Guardians Ad Litem
A guardian ad litem is a special guardian of a minor child appointed by the court to protect the best interest of the child. A guardian ad litem may be an attorney or a lay person. In some states, the nonattorney guardian ad litem is called a court-appointed special advocate (or CASA). In Virginia, for example, only attorneys can be guardians ad litem however, in North Carolina, lay-persons can be guardians ad litem, but the guardian must work with an attorney. The terminology is state specific with relatively few differences between the nonattorney guardian ad litem and the court-appointed special advocate.
Guardians ad litem represent the interests of a child when it has been alleged that child maltreatment has occurred. Child maltreatment refers to specific harmful ...
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