§ 9-32-205. Annual performance audits
(a) The Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth shall conduct annual performance audits of the Division of Youth Services, the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services, and the Division of Children and Family Services. (b) To establish performance auditing standards, the Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth shall use for guidance […]
§ 9-32-206. Provision of information and assistance
(a) The Division of Youth Services, the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services, and the Division of Children and Family Services shall make available to the Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth a list of all reports the unit submits to the Secretary of the Department of Human Services. (b) Under the […]
§ 9-32-207. Annual report to General Assembly
The Senate Interim Committee on Children and Youth shall report annually to the General Assembly its findings and recommendations regarding the child welfare program.
§ 9-34-201. Definitions
For purposes of this chapter: (1) “Fire department” means any organization that is staffed twenty-four (24) hours a day and established for the prevention or extinguishment of fires, including, but not limited to, fire departments organized under municipal or county ordinances, improvement districts, membership fee-based private fire departments, and volunteer fire departments; (2) “Law enforcement […]
§ 9-34-202. Delivery to medical provider, law enforcement agency, or fire department
(a) Any medical provider, law enforcement agency, or fire department shall take possession of a child who is thirty (30) days old or younger without a court order if the parent of the child, without expressing an intent to return for the child, leaves the child: (1) With or voluntarily delivers the child to the […]
§ 9-34-203. Care of the child
(a) Upon delivery of the child to a medical provider, law enforcement agency, or fire department, the law enforcement officer, an appropriate employee of the fire department, or an appropriate employee of the hospital shall take the child into protective custody for seventy-two (72) hours under the Child Maltreatment Act, § 12-18-101 et seq. (b) […]
§ 9-34-204. Missing Persons Information Clearinghouse
The Division of Children and Family Services of the Department of Human Services shall utilize the Missing Persons Information Clearinghouse and any other national and state resources to determine whether the child is a missing child.
Title 9 — Appendix Administrative Order Number 10 — Child Support Guidelines
The Per Curiam Orders of the Supreme Court of Arkansas of February 5, 1990, May 13, 1991, and October 25, 1993, established guidelines for child support enforcement. The Per Curiam Order of September 25, 1997, established Administrative Order Number 10, establishing guidelines effective October 1, 1997. Administrative Order Number 10 was republished in the Per […]
section I. Authority and Scope
Pursuant to Act 948 of 1989, as amended, codified at Ark. Code Ann. § 9-12-312(a) and the Family Support Act of 1988, Pub. L. No. 100-485 (1988), the Court adopted and published Administrative Order Number 10, titled “Child Support Guidelines” (“Guidelines”). Pursuant to Act 907 of 2019, codified at Ark. Code Ann. § 9-12-312(a)(4), the […]
section II. Use of the Guidelines
There is a rebuttable presumption that the amount of child support calculated pursuant to the most recent revision of the Family Support Chart and these Guidelines is the amount to be awarded in any judicial proceeding for divorce, separation, paternity, guardianship, or child support. In addition to an initial award for child support or the […]