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9-27-402. Case plans.
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9-27-402. Case plans.
(a)(1) A case plan shall be developed in all dependency-neglect cases or any case involving an out-of-home placement.
(2) The case plan developed by the Department of Human Services under § 9-28-111 shall be filed with the court no later than thirty (30) days after the date the petition was filed or the juvenile was first placed out of home, whichever is sooner.
(3) If the department does not have sufficient information before the adjudication hearing to complete all of the case plan, the department shall complete those parts for which information is available.
(4) All parts of the case plan shall be completed and filed with the court thirty (30) days after the adjudication hearing.
(b) The case plan is subject to court approval upon review by the court.
(c) The participation of a parent, guardian, or custodian in the development or the acceptance of a case plan shall not constitute an admission of dependency-neglect.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-27-402
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9-27-402. Case plans.
(a)(1) A case plan shall be developed in all dependency-neglect cases or any case involving an out-of-home placement.
(2) The case plan developed by the Department of Human Services under § 9-28-111 shall be filed with the court no later than thirty (30) days after the date the petition was filed or the juvenile was first placed out of home, whichever is sooner.
(3) If the department does not have sufficient information before the adjudication hearing to complete all of the case plan, the department shall complete those parts for which information is available.
(4) All parts of the case plan shall be completed and filed with the court thirty (30) days after the adjudication hearing.
(b) The case plan is subject to court approval upon review by the court.
(c) The participation of a parent, guardian, or custodian in the development or the acceptance of a case plan shall not constitute an admission of dependency-neglect.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
9-28-111. Case plans — Definition.
(a) The Department of Human Services shall be responsible for developing case plans in all dependency-neglect cases and in family-in-need-of-services cases when custody is transferred to the department under § 9-27-328. The case plan shall be:
(1)(A) Developed in consultation with the juvenile's parent, guardian, or custodian and, if appropriate, the juvenile, the juvenile's foster parents, the court-appointed special advocate, the juvenile's attorney ad litem, and all parties' attorneys.
(B) If the parents are unwilling or unable to participate in the development of the case plan, the department shall document the parents' unwillingness or inability to participate and provide a copy of the written documentation to the parent, if available. The department shall then prepare a case plan conforming as nearly as possible with the requirements set forth in this section.
(C) A parent's incarceration, by itself, does not make a parent unavailable to participate in the development of a case plan.
(D)(i) The parent, guardian, or custodian and juvenile may choose additional members to be part of the case planning team.
(ii) The department may reject a selected individual for good cause;
(2)(A) Developed and filed with the court no later than thirty (30) days after the date the petition was filed or the juvenile was first placed out of home, whichever is sooner.
(B) If the department does not have sufficient information before the adjudication hearing to complete all of the case plan, the department shall complete those parts for which information is available.
(C) All parts of the case plan shall be completed and filed with the court thirty (30) days after the adjudication hearing;
(3) Signed by and distributed to all partie
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-28-111
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 9-28-111. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.