Source: https://www.peoples-law.org/fr/node/267
Timestamp: 2019-02-19 00:45:37
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Abuse includes sexual abuse, or physical or mental injury that shows that the child’s health or welfare is being harmed by a parent, caretaker, or other household or family member. A person who allows or encourages a child to engage in obscene or pornographic activity, prostitution, or human trafficking has committed “sexual abuse.”
Read the law: MD. Cts & Jud. Proc. § 3-801
Read the law: MD. Cts & Jud. Proc. § 3-815
The second phase after a CINA petition is filed is the adjudication hearing. If the child is in shelter care, the case moves to adjudication within 30 days. If the child is not in shelter care, an adjudication hearing must be held within 60 days from the service of the CINA petition. Read the Rule: Md. Rule 11-114(a) &(b)
During adjudication, the court determines if the facts in the CINA petition are true. If the court finds that the local Department has proven the allegations showing neglect, abuse, or that the child’s special needs are not being met, the case moves to the disposition phase (usually on the same day).
Read the law: MD. Cts & Jud. Proc. § 3-819
Read the law: MD. Cts & Jud. Proc. § 3-823
Reasonable efforts to unify a child with the family are a priority. However, the child’s safety and health are the primary concern. DSS may petition for reasonable efforts to be waived and are not required if the parent : 1) subjected the child/a sibling of the child/or another child in the household to chronic or severe physical abuse, chronic and life threatening neglect, sexual abuse, torture 2) if the parent or guardian failed to take steps to protect the child after a person in the household has inflicted the abuse in (1), 3) the child/ sibling of the child/ another child in the household has suffered severe physical abuse or death resulting from the abuse and that person who remains in the household, 4) the parent or guardian has abandoned the child, or 5) the parent or guardian has been convicted of violent crimes or has involuntarily lost parent rights of a sibling of the child. If efforts are waived, a permanency planning hearing must be held within 30 days. Read the Law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc., § 3-812
Permanency planning hearings are then held every 6 months until permanency is achieved.Only children 16 or older my have a new planned permanent living arrangement as part of their permanency plan. If the court orders the child be placed for adoption, the court will schedule a termination of parental rights (TPR) hearing, instead of the next 6-month hearing.
Read the Law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc., § 3-812
Read the law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-813
Read the law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-818
Read the law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc. §§ 3-810(b); 3-827
Parents may voluntarily place a child in DSS custody and may sign a written agreement specifying the legal status of the child and rights and obligations of everyone (the parent, the child, and DSS). Read the Law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-811
Before any proceeding concerning a child, the local department will generally give 10 days notice to the child's foster parent, preadoptive parent, or caregiver, of the date, time, and place of the proceeding, and of the right to be heard at the proceeding. This notice provision can be waived for good cause. The foster parent, preadoptive parent, or caregiver, or an attorney for those people, has the right to be heard at the proceeding.Read the Law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc., § 3-816.3
Read the law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-819(l)
Read the law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-819(e)
Read the law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-821
Read the law: MD. Code Health-General § 4-306
Read the law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc § 5-641
Read the law: MD. Code Criminal Proc. § 11-304
Read the law: MD. Code Cts. & Jud. Proc. § 3-828