Section 263.3026 - Permanency Goals; Limitation(a) The department's permanency plan for a child may include as a goal: (1) the reunification of the child with a parent or other individual from whom the child was removed;(2) the termination of parental rights and adoption of the child by a relative or other suitable individual;(3) the award of permanent managing conservatorship of the child to a relative or other suitable individual; or(4) another planned, permanent living arrangement for the child.(b) If the goal of the department's permanency plan for a child is to find another planned, permanent living arrangement for the child, the department shall document that there is a compelling reason why the other permanency goals identified in Subsection (a) are not in the child's best interest.Tex. Fam. Code § 263.3026
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1372, Sec. 5, eff. 6/19/2009.