Foster care decisions; authorize appeal of to the chancery court of residence.
Foster care parent; require to submit monthly expense report pertaining to foster child's care.
Durable legal custody; remove as dispositional alternative in neglect and abuse cases.
Kinship payments for foster children; revise who may be paid.
Kin-Specific Licensing Standards
Department of Child Protection Services; amend provisions related to kinship payments.
Department of Child Protection Services; amend provisions related to kinship payments.
Determining when a law enforcement officer may or shall take a child into custody and requiring that the secretary provide support to such law enforcement officers, the court review involvement in permanency planning and a permanency hearing for a child in custody of the secretary be held within nine months from such child's removal from the and every subsequent hearing 6 months thereafter.