Care & Custody

This chart outlines the options for kinship caregiving in the state of New York along with rights and responsibilities of caregivers and the supports and services available under each option.

Pew 2023 report incorporating a review of research, state-level policies, and available court data, and interviews with child guardianship scholars, practitioners, advocates, attorneys, and court personnel to analyze minor guardianship practices and make recommendations to court leaders and policymakers to better position courts to help families.

Generations United/ King County Bar Association/Metis Estate Planning PLLC provide a 90-minute webinar on the range of legal relationship options in Washington State, and how those options can translate into alternate care plans for grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other kin children.  This webinar provides information on making arrangements for who will raise the children in the event of the caregiver's death, along with other estate planning (2020).   

Power Point Slides

Recording with slides 

One of the most fundamental differences between kinship/grandfamilies and parent-headed families is the lack of an automatic legal relationship between the caregiver and child. Without such a relationship, access to services and supports for the child and their kinship/grandfamily can be challenging, if not impossible.

This webinar explores the various legal relationship options and the array of public benefits and tax credits that are available to these families. Presented by the Director of the Grandfamilies & Kinship Support Network: A National Technical Assistance Center, Ana Beltran, JD, and Network subject matter expert, Heidi Redlich Epstein, MSW, JD, Director of Kinship Policy and State Projects, American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law.