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38-10-32
Section 38-10-32 Action to assure that parents of child in department's custody or receiving
maintenance payments provide support. The department may take action under this article or
any other appropriate state and federal statutes to assure that the parent or parents of a
child in the custody and care of the department or otherwise receiving foster care maintenance
payments under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, provide support for such child. An order
for support may be made at the time custody is granted to the department and may be made a
part of the custody order. (Acts 1986, Ex. Sess., No. 86-686, p. 81, §3.)...
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38-2-6
Section 38-2-6 Duties, powers, and responsibilities of state department. The aim of
the state department shall be the promotion of a unified development of welfare activities
and agencies of the state and of the local governments so that each agency and each governmental
institution shall function as an integral part of a general system. In order to carry out
effectively these aims, it shall be the duty and responsibility of the state department to:
(1) Administer or supervise all forms of public assistance including general home relief,
outdoor and indoor care for persons in need of assistance, also including those duties that
have to do primarily with the determination of need and authorization of relief. (2) Exercise
all the powers, duties, and responsibilities previously vested by law in the State Child Welfare
Department. (3) Provide services to county or municipal governments including the organization
and supervision of counties for the effective carrying out of welfare...
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12-15-314
Section 12-15-314 Dispositions for dependent children. (a) If a child is found to be
dependent, the juvenile court may make any of the following orders of disposition to protect
the welfare of the child: (1) Permit the child to remain with the parent, legal guardian,
or other legal custodian of the child, subject to conditions and limitations as the juvenile
court may prescribe. (2) Place the child under protective supervision under the Department
of Human Resources. (3) Transfer legal custody to any of the following: a. The Department
of Human Resources. b. A local public or private agency, organization, or facility willing
and able to assume the education, care, and maintenance of the child and which is licensed
by the Department of Human Resources or otherwise authorized by law to receive and provide
care for the child. c. A relative or other individual who, after study by the Department of
Human Resources, is found by the juvenile court to be qualified to receive and care for the...
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38-12-34
Section 38-12-34 Subsidies - Authorized; eligibility. (a) Subject to rules adopted to
implement this article, the department may provide subsidies for an eligible child placed
in kinship guardianship by a court, or by a federally recognized Native American Indian tribe,
if the child would not be placed in a kinship guardianship without the assistance of the program.
(b) A child is an eligible child for a kinship guardianship subsidy if the department determines
the following: (1) The child has been removed from the custody of his or her parent or parents,
legal guardian, or legal custodian as a result of a judicial determination to the effect that
continuation in the custody of the parent or parents, legal guardian, or legal custodian would
be contrary to the welfare of the child. (2) The department is responsible for the placement
and care of the child. (3) Being returned home or being adopted are not appropriate permanent
options for the child. (4) Permanent placement with a kinship...
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38-10-5
Section 38-10-5 Form and effect of assignment of child support payments to department.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, as a condition of eligibility for aid,
each recipient of aid to families with dependent children shall have assigned to the department
by operation of law any rights to support from any other person which such recipient may have
in his own behalf or in behalf of any other family member for whom the recipient is receiving
aid, which accrued at the time such assignment is executed, which continue to accrue until
said recipient family ceases to receive aid and which may have effect as provided by the Social
Security Act and amendments thereto. Such assignment to the department of the rights to any
support owed up to the amount of aid paid by the department to the recipient shall conform
with the requirements of the Social Security Act and amendments thereto. Such assignment shall
make the department assignee of and to the right of such child or...
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44-2-20
Section 44-2-20 Text of compact. The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children
is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein
in form substantially as follows: Article I. Purpose and Policy. It is the purpose and policy
of the party states to cooperate with each other in the interstate placement of children to
the end that: (a) Each child requiring placement shall receive the maximum opportunity to
be placed in a suitable environment and with persons or institutions having appropriate qualifications
and facilities to provide a necessary and desirable degree and type of care. (b) The appropriate
authorities in a state where a child is to be placed may have full opportunity to ascertain
the circumstances of the proposed placement, thereby promoting full compliance with applicable
requirements for the protection of the child. (c) The proper authorities of the state from
which the placement is made may obtain the most complete...
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41-15B-2.2
Section 41-15B-2.2 Allocation of trust fund revenues. (a) For each fiscal year, beginning
October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues
and upon appropriation by the Legislature, an amount of up to and including two hundred twenty-five
thousand dollars ($225,000), or equivalent percentage of the total fund, shall be designated
for the administration of the fund by the council and the Commissioner of Children's Affairs.
(b) For the each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First
Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues, the remainder of the Children First Trust Fund, in
the amounts provided for in Section 41-15B-2.1, shall be allocated as follows: (1)
Ten percent of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Public Health for distribution
to one or more of the following: a. The Children's Health Insurance Program. b. Programs for
tobacco control among children with the purpose being to reduce the consumption...
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38-10-31
Section 38-10-31 Assignment to department of right to support owed to child in custody
of department or receiving maintenance payments. Either upon granting of custody of a child
to the department and the provision of foster care or upon the department's making foster
care maintenance payments on behalf of a child under provisions of Title IV-E of the Social
Security Act, the department shall by operation of law be assigned the right to any support
owed to or for such child. The assignment: (1) shall be effective as to both current and accrued
support obligations; and (2) shall terminate when the department is no longer providing foster
care, except with respect to the amount of any unpaid support obligation accrued under the
assignment. (Acts 1986, Ex. Sess., No. 86-686, p. 81, §2.)...
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30-3-110
Section 30-3-110 Civil action for order of retroactive support. There is hereby created
a civil action to establish an order of retroactive support which may be brought against a
non-supporting parent who has a duty to support as the legal parent of a child or children
but has failed to provide support. The action may be brought by the parent or guardian with
physical or legal custody who is providing the actual care and support for the child or may
be brought by the Department of Human Resources pursuant to the provisions of Section
38-10-1 et seq. An action under this section can be brought only if support has not
previously been ordered pursuant to a divorce or other action in this or any other jurisdiction.
(Acts 1994, No. 94-213, p. 298, §1.)...
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12-15-301
Section 12-15-301 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following words and
phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) ABANDONMENT. A voluntary and intentional relinquishment
of the custody of a child by a parent, or a withholding from the child, without good cause
or excuse, by the parent, of his or her presence, care, love, protection, maintenance, or
the opportunity for the display of filial affection, or the failure to claim the rights of
a parent, or failure to perform the duties of a parent. (2) AGE APPROPRIATE or DEVELOPMENTALLY
APPROPRIATE. Activities or items that are generally accepted as suitable for children of the
same chronological age or level of maturity or that are determined to be developmentally appropriate
for a child based on the development of cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral capacities
that are typical for an age or age group and, in the case of a specific child, activities
or items that are suitable for the child based on the...
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