A UCLA Law School graduate and former college and law school instructor, Ms. Dentler is the author of a forthcoming book on adopting from the foster care system.

Ms. Dentler is an adoptive parent who specializes in juvenile dependency litigation and foster care adoption advocacy. She has extensive experience advising and educating birth parents, teens, foster parents, kin caregivers, adoptive families, not-for-profit organizations, schools and colleges. In 2003 she authored and helped pass a landmark law based on her family’s experiences with foster parenting, known as the “Caregiver Information Act.” Member, NACAC; California Permanency for Youth Courts Working Group (2004); Director, California Appellate Defense Counsel Board of Directors, Inc.; co-founder, Legal Advocates for Permanent Parenting. California State Bar License # 92957. Admitted to the practice of law in California (1980 to present).