JUVENILE LAW

Juvenile Law is the practice of law dealing with judicial and administrative
proceedings under Title 3 of the Texas Family Code, Human Resource Code, Education
Code, Evidence and Procedure Code, applicable case law.

By way of definition (not limitation), it is the practice of law dealing with:
• Detention hearings
• Probable cause determinations
• Negotiation for Progressive Sanction Level One disposition
• Negotiation for Deferred Prosecution
• Negotiation for dismissals
• Negotiations for pleas of true and stipulations of evidence
• Pre-trial hearings on motions to quash and to suppress
• Jury adjudication hearings
• Non-jury trial adjudication hearings
• Disposition proceedings
• Modification of disposition proceedings
• Proceedings seeking certification (transfer) to criminal court
• Proceedings seeking imposition of a determinate sentence
• Release/transfer hearings under the determinate sentence act
• Proceedings to transfer juveniles on determinate sentencing probation to adult probation
• Proceedings under Chapter 55 of the Family Code involving mentally ill or mentally
  retarded juveniles
• Parole revocation proceedings, appeals, post-adjudication, state and federal remedies
• Proceedings for sealing or destruction of juvenile records
• School expulsion and/or removal hearings
• Special education proceedings including admission/review/dismissal (ARD) hearings
• Juvenile justice alternative education program placements, and any other matters involving youths'
  rights and the need for legal representation within the juvenile probation or correctional system

The Law Offices of Cramb & Marling, L.L.P. will represent juveniles for the following:
• Truancies
• Arson
• Theft
• Drug violations
• Firearms violation

Our attorneys will also represent juveniles of the age of 17 and under:
• Appearance
• Bonding
• Determinative
• Sentencing

Our law offices will not represent:
• Rape
• Murder
• Severe bodily injury

 

 

To contact, call (817) 282-0281, or send an email to the
Law Offices of Cramb & Marling, L.L.P.