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Children and Families in Need of Services

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Purposes and Intent; Personnel Standards and Screening.

Legislative Intent for the Juvenile Justice System.

Definitions.

Families in Need of Services and Children in Need of Services; Procedures and Jurisdiction.

Oaths, Records, and Confidential Information.

Appointed Counsel; Compensation.

Attorney’s Fees.

Punishment for Contempt of Court; Alternative Sanctions.

Section
984.071

Resources and Information.

Section
984.085

Sheltering Unmarried Minors; Aiding Unmarried Minor Runaways; Violations.

Section
984.086

Children Locked Out of the Home; Interagency Cooperation.

Intake.

Services to Families in Need of Services.

Case Staffing; Services and Treatment to a Family in Need of Services.

Taking Into Custody a Child Alleged to Be From a Family in Need of Services or to Be a Child in Need of Services.

Shelter Placement; Hearing.

Petition for a Child in Need of Services.

Process and Service.

Response to Petition and Representation of Parties.

Referral of Child-in-Need-of-Services Cases to Mediation.

Medical Screening and Treatment of Child; Examination of Parent, Guardian, or Person Requesting Custody.

Hearings for Child-in-Need-of-Services Cases.

Orders of Adjudication.

Powers of Disposition.

Court and Witness Fees.

Appeal.

Section
984.151

Truancy Petition; Prosecution; Disposition.

Section
984.225

Powers of Disposition; Placement in a Staff-Secure Shelter.

Section
984.226

Physically Secure Setting.