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Section 260C.001 — Title, Intent, And Construction. - Subdivision 1. Citation; scope. (a) Sections 260C.001 to 260C.637 may...
Section 260C.007 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Scope. As used in this chapter, the terms...
Section 260C.008 — Foster Care Sibling Bill Of Rights. - Subdivision 1. Statement of rights. (a) A child placed in...
Section 260C.050 — Expert Assistance. - In any county the court may provide for the physical...
Section 260C.101 — Jurisdiction. - Subdivision 1. Children in need of protection or services, or...
Section 260C.121 — Venue. - Subdivision 1. Venue. When it is alleged that a child...
Section 260C.125 — Case Transfer Process. - Subdivision 1. Purpose. This section pertains to the transfer of...
Section 260C.139 — Give Life A Chance; Safe Place For Newborns. - Subdivision 1. Duty to attempt reunification, duty to search for...
Section 260C.141 — Petition. - Subdivision 1. Who may file; required form. (a) Any reputable...
Section 260C.143 — Procedure; Habitual Truants, Runaways, Offenders. - Subdivision 1. Notice. When a peace officer, or attendance officer...
Section 260C.148 — Procedure; Domestic Child Abuse. - Subdivision 1. Petition. The local welfare agency may bring an...
Section 260C.150 — Diligent Efforts To Identify Parents Of A Child; Procedures For Review; Reasonable Efforts. - Subdivision 1. Determining parentage. A parent and child relationship may...
Section 260C.151 — Summons; Notice. - Subdivision 1. Issuance of summons. After a petition has been...
Section 260C.152 — Service Of Summons, Notice. - Subdivision 1. Notice in lieu of summons; personal service. The...
Section 260C.154 — Failure To Obey Summons Or Subpoena; Contempt, Arrest. - If any person personally served with summons or subpoena fails,...
Section 260C.157 — Investigation; Physical And Mental Examination. - Subdivision 1. Investigation. (a) Upon request of the court the...
Section 260C.163 — Hearing. - Subdivision 1. General. (a) Except for hearings arising under section...
Section 260C.165 — Certain Out-of-court Statements Admissible. - An out-of-court statement not otherwise admissible by statute or rule...
Section 260C.168 — Compliance With Indian Child Welfare Act And Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act. - The provisions of this chapter must be construed consistently with...
Section 260C.171 — Records. - Subdivision 1. Records required to be kept. The juvenile court...
Section 260C.175 — Taking Child Into Custody. - Subdivision 1. Immediate custody. No child may be taken into...
Section 260C.176 — Release Or Detention. - Subdivision 1. Notice; release. If a child is taken into...
Section 260C.177 — Parental And Law Enforcement Notification. - An emergency shelter and its agents, employees, and volunteers must...
Section 260C.178 — Emergency Removal Hearing. - Subdivision 1. Hearing and release requirements. (a) If a child...
Section 260C.181 — Place Of Temporary Custody; Shelter Care Facility. - Subdivision 1. Temporary custody. A child taken into custody pursuant...
Section 260C.188 — Children In Custody; Responsibility For Medical Care. - Subdivision 1. Medical aid. If a child is taken into...
Section 260C.190 — Family-focused Residential Placement. - Subdivision 1. Placement. (a) An agency with legal responsibility for...
Section 260C.193 — Dispositions; General Provisions. - Subdivision 1. Dismissal of petition. Whenever the court finds that...
Section 260C.201 — Dispositions; Children In Need Of Protection Or Services Or Neglected And In Foster Care. - Subdivision 1. Dispositions. (a) If the court finds that the...
Section 260C.202 — Court Review Of Foster Care. - (a) If the court orders a child placed in foster...
Section 260C.203 — Administrative Or Court Review Of Placements. - (a) Unless the court is conducting the reviews required under...
Section 260C.204 — Permanency Progress Review For Children In Foster Care For Six Months. - (a) When a child continues in placement out of the...
Section 260C.208 — Information For Child Placement. - Subdivision 1. Agency with placement authority. An agency with legal...
Section 260C.209 — Background Checks. - Subdivision 1. Subjects. The responsible social services agency may have...
Section 260C.212 — Children In Placement. - Subdivision 1. Out-of-home placement; plan. (a) An out-of-home placement plan...
Section 260C.215 — Welfare Of Children. - Subdivision 1. Recruitment of foster families. Each authorized child-placing agency...
Section 260C.219 — Agency Responsibilities For Parents And Children In Placement. - Subdivision 1. Responsibilities for parents; noncustodial parents. (a) When a...
Section 260C.221 — Relative Search And Engagement; Placement Consideration. - Subdivision 1. Relative search requirements. (a) The responsible social services...
Section 260C.223 — Concurrent Permanency Planning. - Subdivision 1. Program; goals. (a) The commissioner of human services...
Section 260C.225 — County Responsibility For Transitional Services Plans. - When a child is subject to a court dispositional order...
Section 260C.227 — Voluntary Foster Care; Required Court Review. - (a) When the responsible social services agency and the child's...
Section 260C.228 — Voluntary Foster Care; Child Is Colocated With Parent In Treatment Program. - Subdivision 1. Generally. When a parent requests assistance from an...
Section 260C.229 — Voluntary Foster Care For Children Over Age 18; Required Court Review. - (a) When a child asks to continue or to reenter...
Section 260C.301 — Termination Of Parental Rights. - Subdivision 1. Voluntary and involuntary. The juvenile court may upon...
Section 260C.303 — Venue. - Venue for proceedings for the termination of parental rights is...
Section 260C.307 — Procedures In Terminating Parental Rights. - Subdivision 1. Who may petition. Any reputable person, including but...
Section 260C.312 — Disposition; Parental Rights Not Terminated. - (a) If, after a hearing, the court does not terminate...
Section 260C.317 — Termination Of Parental Rights; Effect. - Subdivision 1. Termination. If, after a hearing, the court finds...
Section 260C.325 — Guardian. - Subdivision 1. Guardianship. (a) When the court terminates parental rights...
Section 260C.328 — Change Of Guardian; Termination Of Guardianship. - (a) Upon its own motion or upon petition of an...
Section 260C.329 — Reestablishment Of The Legal Parent And Child Relationship. - Subdivision 1. Citation. This section may be cited as the...
Section 260C.331 — Costs Of Care. - Subdivision 1. Care, examination, or treatment. (a) Except where parental...
Section 260C.335 — Civil Jurisdiction Over Persons Contributing To Need For Protection Or Services; Court Orders. - Subdivision 1. Jurisdiction. The juvenile court has civil jurisdiction over...
Section 260C.405 — Violation Of An Order For Protection. - Subdivision 1. Violation; penalty. Whenever an order for protection is...
Section 260C.411 — New Evidence. - A child whose status has been adjudicated by a juvenile...
Section 260C.415 — Appeal. - Subdivision 1. Persons entitled to appeal; procedure. An appeal may...
Section 260C.421 — Contempt. - Any person knowingly interfering with an order of the juvenile...
Section 260C.425 — Criminal Jurisdiction For Contributing To Need For Protection Or Services. - Subdivision 1. Crimes. (a) Any person who by act, word,...
Section 260C.4411 — Pre-northstar Care For Children Foster Care Program. - Subdivision 1. Pre-Northstar Care for Children foster care program. (a)...
Section 260C.4412 — Payment For Residential Placements. - (a) When a child is placed in a foster care...
Section 260C.4413 — Initial Clothing Allowance. - (a) An initial clothing allowance must be available to a...
Section 260C.446 — Distribution Of Funds Recovered For Assistance Furnished. - When any amount shall be recovered from any source for...
Section 260C.451 — Foster Care Benefits Past Age 18. - Subdivision 1. Notification. Six months prior to the child's 18th...
Section 260C.452 — Successful Transition To Adulthood. - Subdivision 1. Scope; purpose. (a) For purposes of this section,...
Section 260C.503 — Permanency Proceedings. - Subdivision 1. Required permanency proceedings. (a) Except for children in...
Section 260C.505 — Petition. - (a) A permanency or termination of parental rights petition must...
Section 260C.507 — Admit-deny Hearing. - (a) An admit-deny hearing on the permanency or termination of...
Section 260C.509 — Trial. - The permanency proceedings shall be conducted in a timely fashion...
Section 260C.511 — Best Interests Of The Child. - (a) The "best interests of the child" means all relevant...
Section 260C.513 — Permanency Dispositions When Child Cannot Return Home. - (a) For a child who cannot return home, a permanency...
Section 260C.515 — Permanency Disposition Orders. - Subdivision 1. Court order required. If the child is not...
Section 260C.517 — Findings And Content Of Order For Permanency Disposition. - (a) Except for an order terminating parental rights, an order...
Section 260C.519 — Further Court Hearings. - Once a permanency disposition order has been made, further court...
Section 260C.521 — Court Reviews After Permanency Disposition Order. - Subdivision 1. Child in permanent custody of responsible social services...
Section 260C.601 — Adoption Of Children Under Guardianship Of Commissioner. - Subdivision 1. Review and finalization requirements; adoption procedures. (a) Sections...
Section 260C.603 — Definitions. - Subdivision 1. Scope. For the purposes of sections 260C.601 to...
Section 260C.605 — Reasonable Efforts To Finalize An Adoption. - Subdivision 1. Requirements. (a) Reasonable efforts to finalize the adoption...
Section 260C.607 — Review Of Progress Toward Adoption. - Subdivision 1. Review hearings. (a) The court shall conduct a...
Section 260C.609 — Social And Medical History. - (a) The responsible social services agency shall thoroughly discuss the...
Section 260C.611 — Adoption Study Required. - (a) An adoption study under section 259.41 approving placement of...
Section 260C.613 — Social Services Agency As Commissioner's Agent. - Subdivision 1. Adoptive placement decisions. (a) The responsible social services...
Section 260C.615 — Duties Of Commissioner. - Subdivision 1. Duties. (a) For any child who is under...
Section 260C.617 — Sibling Placement. - (a) The responsible social services agency shall make every effort...
Section 260C.619 — Communication And Contact Agreements. - (a) An adopting parent and a relative or foster parent...
Section 260C.621 — Jurisdiction And Venue. - Subdivision 1. Jurisdiction. (a) The juvenile court has original jurisdiction...
Section 260C.623 — Adoption Petition. - Subdivision 1. Who may petition. (a) The responsible social services...
Section 260C.625 — Documents Filed By Social Services Agency. - (a) The following shall be filed by the responsible social...
Section 260C.627 — Notice Of Adoption Proceedings. - Subdivision 1. To whom given. (a) Notice of the adoption...
Section 260C.629 — Finalization Hearing. - Subdivision 1. Consent. (a) A parent whose rights to the...
Section 260C.631 — Judgment And Decree. - (a) After taking testimony from the responsible social services agency,...
Section 260C.633 — Adoption Denied. - (a) If the court is not satisfied that the proposed...
Section 260C.635 — Effect Of Adoption. - Subdivision 1. Legal effect. (a) Upon adoption, the adopted child...
Section 260C.637 — Access To Original Birth Record Information. - An adopted person may ask the commissioner of health to...
Section 260C.70 — Citation. - Sections 260C.70 to 260C.714 may be cited as "Placements in...
Section 260C.702 — Requirements For Placements In Qualified Residential Treatment Programs. - For the responsible social services agency to place a child...
Section 260C.704 — Requirements For The Qualified Individual's Assessment Of The Child For Placement In A Qualified Residential Treatment Program. - (a) A qualified individual must complete an assessment of the...
Section 260C.706 — Family And Permanency Team Requirements. - (a) When the responsible social services agency's juvenile treatment screening...
Section 260C.708 — Out-of-home Placement Plan For Qualified Residential Treatment Program Placements. - (a) When the responsible social services agency places a child...
Section 260C.71 — Court Approval Requirements. - Subdivision 1. Judicial review. When the responsible social services agency...
Section 260C.712 — Ongoing Reviews And Permanency Hearing Requirements. - As long as a child remains placed in a qualified...
Section 260C.714 — Review Of Extended Qualified Residential Treatment Program Placements. - (a) When a responsible social services agency places a child...
Section 260C.80 — Office Of The Foster Youth Ombudsperson; Board. - Subdivision 1. Office of the Foster Youth Ombudsperson. The Office...
Section 260C.81 — Organization Of The Office Of The Foster Youth Ombudsperson. - The foster youth ombudsperson may select, appoint, and compensate out...
Section 260C.82 — Powers Of Foster Youth Ombudsperson; Investigation; Action On Complaints; Recommendations. - Subdivision 1. Agency. For purposes of this section, "agency" means...
Section 260C.83 — Recommendations And Reports To Governor. - Subdivision 1. Specific reports. The ombudsperson may send conclusions and...