Professor Playton's Publications

Articles

Dona Playton, The Hybrid Guardian Ad Litem: Adopting Standards of Practice to Improve the Quality of Representation for Children in Custody Cases, 22 WYO. L. REV. 103 (2022).  

Dona Playton, The High Cost of Incarceration: A Call for Gender-Responsive Criminal Justice Reforms for Women and their Children, 21 CONN. PUB. INT. L.J. 45 (2021).   

Dona Playton, Improving Legal Access and Outcomes in Family Law Cases, 42 WYO. LAW. 20 (Oct. 2021).

Dona Playton, Turning a Vision Into Reality, John Burman and the Clinical Programs at the UW College of Law, 42 WYO. LAW. 30 (Mar. 2019). Westlaw 

Dona Playton, The Affordable Care Act: Understanding the Implications for Divorced and Separated Parents, Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association, Coffee House (June 2015).   

Parent Representation Committee of the Wyoming Children’s Justice Project, Proposed Practice Standards for Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse, Neglect, CHINS, and Termination of Parental Rights Cases, (drafted standards for approval and modification by the Committee, 2012).

Dona Playton, The Affordable Care Act: Reconsidering Traditional Approaches to Medical and Child Support for Divorced and Separated Parents, The Coffee House (Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association), Spring 2015, at 8. WTLA

Dona Playton, Proposed Practice Standards for Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse, Neglect, CHINS, and Termination of Parental Rights Cases, (Drafted standards for approval and modification by the Parent Representation Committee of the Wyoming Children’s Justice Project) (2012).

Dona Playton, The Legal Rights of Women in Wyoming, A publication of the Wyoming Council for Women’s Issues, 2d ed., (2010). Updates 2010-2016.   

Dona Playton, Incarceration and the Sentences for the Children Left Behind, 32 WYO. LAW. 36 (2009). Westlaw   

Dona Playton, Raising the Bar: Improving the Representation of Children in Family Law Cases Marked by Domestic Violence, Wyoming Lawyer, Dec. 2008, at 32. Westlaw

Dona Playton, Raising the Bar: Improving the Representation of Children in Family Law Cases Marked by Domestic Violence, 31 WYO. LAW. 32 (2008).   

Dona Playton & Stacey Obrecht, High Times in Wyoming: Reflecting the State’s Values by Eliminating Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Women in the Equality State, 7 WYO. L. REV. 295 (2007). 

Dona Playton and Stacey Obrecht, High Times in Wyoming: Reflecting the State's Values by Eliminating Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Women in the Equality State, 7 Wyoming Law Review 295 (2007). Hein Online ǀ Lexis ǀ  Westlaw

Dona Playton, Domestic Abuse of the Elderly, Wyoming Lawyer, Oct. 2002, at 23. Westlaw

Books

Wyoming Domestic Violence Benchbook: A Practical and Comprehensive Source of Information and Law , Wyoming Supreme Court, Wyoming Attorney General's Office, Division of Victim Services (2016).

Wyoming Domestic Violence Benchbook: A Practical and Comprehensive Source of Information and Law, Wyoming Supreme Court, Wyoming Attorney General's Office, Division of Victim Services (2004). Google Books