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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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