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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, ยง3.)...
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12-15-315
Section 12-15-315 Permanency hearing for Department of Human Resources cases only. (a) Within
12 months of the date a child is removed from the home and placed in out-of-home care, and
not less frequently than every 12 months thereafter during the continuation of the child in
out-of-home care, the juvenile court shall hold a permanency hearing. The Department of Human
Resources shall present to the juvenile court at the hearing a permanent plan for the child.
The juvenile court shall consult with the child, in an age-appropriate manner, regarding the
permanency plan and any transition plan to independent living. If a permanent plan is not
presented to the juvenile court at this hearing, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that
the child should be returned home. This provision is intended to ensure that a permanent plan
is prepared by the Department of Human Resources and presented to the juvenile court within
12 months of the placement of any child in foster care and no less...
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38-10-9
Section 38-10-9 Investigations by department as to location of parents and ability of parents
to furnish child support; authority to notify parent of support duty; falsification of report
as to parent's income, etc.; citation to require in-court testimony; employer's duty to provide
certain information. (a) The department is authorized and empowered to conduct investigations
to determine the location of parents and putative parents alleged or known to owe child support.
(b) The department is authorized and empowered to conduct investigations to determine the
location, income, and assets including real or personal property or income producing property
of parents alleged or known to have a child support obligation. (c) The department is authorized
and empowered to notify a parent of his legal duty to provide support and to require information
concerning his financial status in order to determine whether or not he is financially able
to provide support. (d) Such notice may inform the...
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38-12-31
Section 38-12-31 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1)
There exists in this state a number of children who cannot reside with their parents, legal
guardians, or legal custodians because of such parents', legal guardians', or custodians'
incapacity or inability to perform the regular and expected functions of care and support
of the children and family care and who thereby come to the attention of juvenile court and
into the care and custody of the Department of Human Resources. (2) An increasing number of
relatives, including grandparents, find themselves wanting to provide care to related foster
children on a long-term basis to prevent the children from remaining in foster care with unrelated
caregivers yet these relatives are either unable or unwilling to seek termination of the legal
relationships between the parent and the child, particularly when it is the caregiver's own
child or sibling who is the parent. (3) It is in the public interest to...
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38-12-32
Section 38-12-32 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) CAREGIVER. An individual 21 years of age or older, other than a child's parent,
legal guardian, or legal custodian who is an approved foster parent, who is a relative of
the child, and who has been providing care and support for the child while the child has been
residing in the caregiver's home for at least the last six consecutive months while in the
legal custody of the Department of Human Resources, a designated official for a child-placing
agency, or a successor guardian. (2) CHILD. An individual under 18 years of age who is in
foster care with the caregiver and over whom a court has exercised continuing jurisdiction.
(3) COURT. The juvenile court. (4) DEPARTMENT. The Department of Human Resources. (5) KINSHIP
GUARDIAN. A caregiver who is willing to assume care of a child because of parental incapacity
of a parent, legal guardian, legal custodian, or other dependency...
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26-10-26
Section 26-10-26 Subsidies - Report; modification of subsidy; review; duration of subsidy.
(a)(1) The department may require the adoptive parent or parents to submit a report, annually
or at a time or times specified in the agreement or when the department is investigating an
allegation of improperly received benefits. The parent shall state in the report that the
child remains under their care and any change in the conditions or circumstances of the adopting
parent or the needs of the child. The subsidy agreement shall continue according to its terms,
except as provided by this article. The department may confirm the accuracy and veracity of
the report from any reliable sources of information concerning the adoptive family and child,
including any governmental or private agency that serves the area in which the child resides.
If the report or information received by the department indicates a substantial change in
the conditions that existed when the adoption subsidy agreement was...
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38-7-2
Section 38-7-2 Definitions. Terms used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,
have the meanings ascribed to them in this section. When not inconsistent with the context,
words used in the present tense include the future, words in the singular number include the
plural number, and words in the plural number include the singular number, and the word "shall"
is always mandatory and not merely directory: (1) CHILD. Any person under 19 years of age,
a person under the continuing jurisdiction of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 12-15-117,
or a person under 21 years of age in foster care as defined by the Department of Human Resources.
(2) CHILD-CARE INSTITUTION or INSTITUTION FOR CHILD CARE. A child-care facility where more
than 10 children are received and maintained for the purpose of providing them with care or
training or both, or transitional living program services, but does not include: a. Any institution
for child care which is under the ownership or control,...
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26-10-24
Section 26-10-24 Certification for subsidy; procedures; approval of plan. (a) Except in cases
involving foster parents, where the department has made reasonable efforts to locate an appropriate
family to adopt the child without the use of subsidy and no family has been found for the
child, the State Department of Human Resources shall certify the child as eligible for a subsidy,
provided the other requirements of this article are met. (b) In cases involving foster parents
where there is evidence to support the existence of potential danger to the child in severing
his or her emotional ties with his or her foster parents who are the prospective adoptive
parents, no evidence need be presented that reasonable efforts have been made to place the
child without subsidy. (c) Application for adoption subsidy shall be in the form and contain
the information required by the department. (d) The decision concerning certification of the
child for subsidy shall be made by the State Department of...
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12-15-319
Section 12-15-319 Grounds for termination of parental rights; factors considered; presumption
arising from abandonment. (a) If the juvenile court finds from clear and convincing evidence,
competent, material, and relevant in nature, that the parents of a child are unable or unwilling
to discharge their responsibilities to and for the child, or that the conduct or condition
of the parents renders them unable to properly care for the child and that the conduct or
condition is unlikely to change in the foreseeable future, it may terminate the parental rights
of the parents. In a hearing on a petition for termination of parental rights, the court shall
consider the best interests of the child. In determining whether or not the parents are unable
or unwilling to discharge their responsibilities to and for the child and to terminate the
parental rights, the juvenile court shall consider the following factors including, but not
limited to, the following: (1) That the parents have abandoned...
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38-7-3
Section 38-7-3 License to operate or conduct child-care facility - Requirements; recordkeeping;
parental notifications, etc.; affidavits; inspections and investigations. (a) No person, group
of persons, or corporation may operate or conduct any facility for child care, as defined
in this chapter, without being licensed or approved as provided in this chapter. (b)(1) Except
as provided in subdivision (2), the licensure requirements of this chapter do not apply to
a child-care facility that is operating as an integral part of a local church ministry or
a religious nonprofit school, and is so recognized in the church or school's documents, whether
operated separately or as a part of a religious nonprofit school unit, secondary school unit,
or institution of higher learning under the governing board or authority of the local church
or its convention, association, or regional body to which it may be subject. (2) A child-care
facility that receives state or federal funds or is operating for...
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