Working with Child Deprivation Cases in Georgia's Juvenile Courts
A REFERENCE MANUAL FOR
SPECIAL ASSISTANT ATTORNEYS GENERAL
VII. Disposition of a Deprived Child
The main focus of the dispositional hearing is what should be done to improve
the life of the child now that he/she is found to be deprived in the adjudicatory
hearing. The dual hearing procedure is sometimes called a bifurcated system,
that is a system with separate hearings for factual determinations on the merits
of the deprivation petition and child welfare decisions. The court can conduct
the dispositional hearing immediately following the adjudicatory hearing or
can schedule the dispositional hearing for a latter date.
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