In order to provide stable, permanent homes for every child or youth placed out of the home, in as short a time as possible, a court shall conduct a permanency planning hearing. The court shall hold the permanency planning hearing as soon as possible following the initial hearing held pursuant to a proceeding pursuant to […]
The court shall conduct a periodic review at least every six months and, at the periodic review, shall determine the following: Whether the child’s or youth’s safety is protected in the placement; Whether reasonable efforts have been made to find safe and permanent placement for the child or youth; The continuing necessity for and the […]
A party may request the court to determine whether a youth is an incapacitated person, as defined in section 15-14-102. The motion must be filed with the court prior to the youth’s eighteenth birthday. If there has been a determination, or if a determination is pending, that a youth is an incapacitated person, as defined […]
When a youth turns eighteen years of age while in foster care or noncertified kinship care, the court shall hold a transition hearing within thirty-five days after the youth’s eighteenth birthday. The purpose of the transition hearing is to determine whether the youth will opt into the foster youth in transition program, established in section […]
