Article 3 - DEPENDENCY AND TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS
- Section 12-15-301 - Definitions
- Section 12-15-302 - Venue generally
- Section 12-15-303 - Transfer of dependency proceedings between juvenile courts within the state
- Section 12-15-304 - Appointment by juvenile courts of guardians ad litem
- Section 12-15-305 - Right to counsel for petitioners or respondent parents, legal guardians, or legal custodians in dependency proceedings
- Section 12-15-306 - Removing a child from the custody of a parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian
- Section 12-15-307 - Notice and right to be heard to be given to relatives, preadoptive parents, or foster parents
- Section 12-15-308 - Filing of petition and conduct of 72-hour hearing as to necessity for continuation of shelter care of a child
- Section 12-15-309 - Alleged dependent child to be released when continued shelter care not required; conditions imposed upon release; amendment of conditions or return of child to custody upon failure to conform to conditions imposed
- Section 12-15-310 - Conduct of adjudicatory hearings
- Section 12-15-311 - Dispositional hearing
- Section 12-15-312 - Reasonable efforts in judicial determinations; situations in which reasonable efforts are not required to be made
- Section 12-15-313 - Ordering and preparation of report concerning a child and family; ordering, conduct, and certification of findings of physical or mental examination of child prior to hearing on petition generally; examination of parent, legal guardian, or legal custodian after hearing where ability to care for or supervise child at issue
- Section 12-15-314 - Dispositions for dependent children
- Section 12-15-315 - Permanency hearing for Department of Human Resources cases only
- Section 12-15-316 - Modification, extension, or termination of orders of custody or protective supervision generally
- Section 12-15-317 - Who may file petition
- Section 12-15-318 - Service of process
- Section 12-15-319 - Grounds for termination of parental rights; factors considered; presumption arising from abandonment
- Section 12-15-320 - Dispositions
- Section 12-15-321 - Periodic review of efforts to achieve adoption of child in custody of another after parental rights terminated
- Section 12-15-322 - Authority of one in custody to place child for adoption or consent to adoption
- Section 12-15-323 - Appeals of dependency and termination of parental rights cases
- Section 12-15-324 - Applicability