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Robert Latham, associate director at the Children & Youth Law Clinic of the University of Miami Law School, who wrote this on his excellent Blog: And lest you think this law has no teeth, the law prevents admission of any statement made by a parent without the notice being given. So we turn for analysis to Prof.
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