TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. If not filing for TPR, DCFS shall provide documentation of compelling reasons. PRACTICE TIP | Paramount Concern: Health and safety of child shall be the paramount concern in development of case plan. PRACTICE TIP | Shortage of Placements: Does not justify an assertion that it is in the best interest of child to be placed a substantial distance from his/her parents’ home or out-of-State. PRACTICE TIP | Disapprove Placement: Judge cannot choose child’s specific placement when he/she is in DCFS custody. However, court has authority to disapprove case plan, in whole or part, which includes child’s placement. Judge has separate authority to disapprove placement chosen by DCFS when requirements of Article 672(A)(2) are met. PRACTICE TIP | Reasonable and Prudent Parent: Recognizing greatest opportunity for normalcy lies in the day-to-day decisions affecting the child’s activities, child’s caregiver should be supported in making those decisions through use of the reasonable and prudent parent standard as set forth in La. R.S. § 46:283.
TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. The birth parent believes that her decision to surrender her minor child to the Agency is informed and uncoerced, and after due consideration of the alternatives for the minor child, he agrees to surrender, by this Agreement, legal and physical custody of the minor child to THE XXXXXX ADOPTION FOUNDATION, granting all rights and responsibilities to plan for the child’s future, protection, and maintenance, including the right to place the minor child for adoption with a family approved by the Agency, consent to the adoption, and bring any court termination proceedings that may be required, in accordance with the appropriate provisions of Virginia Code § 63.2-1817, § 63.2- 1221, et. seq. and § 16.1-277.01, et. seq., 1950 Edition, as amended, or as may be required in another state, to free the child for adoptive placement and otherwise benefit his interests. The birth parent acknowledges that this Entrustment Agreement is a legal document, and that the signing of the document by his, constitutes the birth parent’s consent to his permanent separation from the minor child and the termination of all of her parental rights and obligations to the minor child, from the effective date of this Entrustment Agreement, which date is the _______________ ( ) day of , 20 , subject to the legal revocation period of the same Entrustment Agreement. The birth parent consents to and approves all medical or surgical treatment necessary for the welfare of my minor child while under the care of the Agency. This includes the administration of anesthesia deemed necessary by a licensed medical professional in an emergency circumstance. The birth parent agrees to allow the Agency to share Medicaid information with the xxxxxx parents, which would allow the xxxxxx parents to have access to my last name. In the event that he should ask for the return of his minor child, he agrees to reimburse the Agency for all medical costs provided for the child. The birth parent has been informed by the Agency that the placement of his minor child with a family is regarded as a xxxxxx care placement for the first ten (10) days of her life. He gives her permission for the Agency to authorize the xxxxxx/adoptive parents to travel with the child outside of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The birth parent has completed an Indian Child Welfare/Alaskan Village Affidavit regarding his membership or eligibility for membership in a Native American or Alaskan Village tribe. Understands that if he is a member of e...
TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. The Cabinet determines the child is no longer receiving support from the adoptive parents; No adoptive parent who signed the adoption assistance agreement remains living; or In the event of a new adoption assistance agreement.
TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. 1) For children who will have spent 15 of the previous 22 months in xxxxxx care, DFCS shall submit a termination of parental rights (TPR) packet to the Office of the Attorney General by the first day of the fifteenth month or document an available exception under the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). The Office of the Attorney General shall file the petition for termination of parental rights by the last day of the fifteenth month to ensure compliance with the ASFA.
TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. If not filing for TPR, DCFS shall provide documentation of compelling reasons.
TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. B. The Agency agrees to staff its cases according to the following provisions:
TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. Upon the child's death, full-time employment, marriage, or military service; In the event the State Legislature fails to appropriate funds to support the adoption assistance program; or In the event of a new adoption assistance agreement.
