Section 1011. Purpose  


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  • This article is designed to establish procedures to
      help protect children from injury or mistreatment and to help  safeguard
      their  physical,  mental,  and  emotional  well-being. It is designed to
      provide a due process of law for determining when the state, through its
      family court, may intervene against the wishes of a parent on behalf  of
      a child so that his needs are properly met.