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Florida Statutes > Chapter 39 > Part V
Florida Statutes > Chapter 39 > Part V – Petition, Arraignment, Adjudication, and Disposition
§ 39.501 Petition for dependency
§ 39.502 Notice, process, and service
§ 39.503 Identity or location of parent unknown; special procedures
§ 39.504 Injunction; penalty
§ 39.505 No answer required
§ 39.506 Arraignment hearings
§ 39.507 Adjudicatory hearings; orders of adjudication
§ 39.5075 Citizenship or residency status for immigrant children who are dependents
§ 39.5085 Relative Caregiver Program
§ 39.509 Grandparents rights
§ 39.510 Appeal
Terms Used In Florida Statutes > Chapter 39 > Part V
abandonment: means a situation in which the parent or legal custodian of a child or, in the absence of a parent or legal custodian, the caregiver, while being able, has made no significant contribution to the child's care and maintenance or has failed to establish or maintain a substantial and positive relationship with the child, or both. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Abuse: means any willful act or threatened act that results in any physical, mental, or sexual abuse, injury, or harm that causes or is likely to cause the child's physical, mental, or emotional health to be significantly impaired. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Adjudicatory hearing: means a hearing for the court to determine whether or not the facts support the allegations stated in the petition in dependency cases or in termination of parental rights cases. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Adoption: means the act of creating the legal relationship between parent and child where it did not exist, thereby declaring the child to be legally the child of the adoptive parents and their heir at law, and entitled to all the rights and privileges and subject to all the obligations of a child born to the adoptive parents in lawful wedlock. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Adult: means any natural person other than a child. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
assessment: means the gathering of information for the evaluation of a child's and caregiver's physical, psychiatric, psychological, or mental health; developmental delays or challenges; and educational, vocational, and social condition and family environment as they relate to the child's and caregiver's need for rehabilitative and treatment services, including substance abuse treatment services, mental health services, developmental services, literacy services, medical services, family services, and other specialized services, as appropriate. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Caregiver: means the parent, legal custodian, permanent guardian, adult household member, or other person responsible for a child's welfare as defined in subsection (48). See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Case plan: means a document, as described in…. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Circuit: means any of the 20 judicial circuits as set forth in…. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
1. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Department: means the Department of Children and Families. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Diligent search: means the efforts of a social service agency to locate a parent or prospective parent whose identity or location is unknown, initiated as soon as the social service agency is made aware of the existence of such parent, with the search progress reported at each court hearing until the parent is either identified and located or the court excuses further search. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Disposition hearing: means a hearing in which the court determines the most appropriate protections, services, and placement for the child in dependency cases. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
(b) The parent, legal custodian, or adult relative has a legal responsibility by blood, marriage, or court order to support or care for the child. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Foster care: means care provided a child in a foster family or boarding home, group home, agency boarding home, child care institution, or any combination thereof. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Judge: means the circuit judge exercising jurisdiction pursuant to this chapter. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Legal custody: means a legal status created by a court which vests in a custodian of the person or guardian, whether an agency or an individual, the right to have physical custody of the child and the right and duty to protect, nurture, guide, and discipline the child and to provide him or her with food, shelter, education, and ordinary medical, dental, psychiatric, and psychological care. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Licensed child-placing agency: means a person, society, association, or institution licensed by the department to care for, receive, or board children and to place children in a licensed child-caring institution or a foster or adoptive home. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Mediation: means a process whereby a neutral third person called a mediator acts to encourage and facilitate the resolution of a dispute between two or more parties. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Office: means the Office of Adoption and Child Protection within the Executive Office of the Governor. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Out-of-home: means a placement outside of the home of the parents or a parent. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Parent: means a woman who gives birth to a child and a man whose consent to the adoption of the child would be required under…. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Party: means the parent or parents of the child, the petitioner, the department, the guardian ad litem or the representative of the guardian ad litem program when the program has been appointed, and the child. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Permanency plan: means the plan that establishes the placement intended to serve as the child's permanent home. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Prospective parent: means a person who claims to be, or has been identified as, a person who may be a mother or a father of a child. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Protective investigation: means the acceptance of a report alleging child abuse, abandonment, or neglect, as defined in this chapter, by the central abuse hotline or the acceptance of a report of other dependency by the department; the investigation of each report; the determination of whether action by the court is warranted; the determination of the disposition of each report without court or public agency action when appropriate; and the referral of a child to another public or private agency when appropriate. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Protective supervision: means a legal status in dependency cases which permits the child to remain safely in his or her own home or other nonlicensed placement under the supervision of an agent of the department and which must be reviewed by the court during the period of supervision. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Qualified professional: means a physician or a physician assistant licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459; a psychiatrist licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459; a psychologist as defined in…. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Relative: means a grandparent, great-grandparent, sibling, first cousin, aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, niece, or nephew, whether related by the whole or half blood, by affinity, or by adoption. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Safety plan: means a plan created to control present or impending danger using the least intrusive means appropriate to protect a child when a parent, caregiver, or legal custodian is unavailable, unwilling, or unable to do so. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Shelter: means a placement with a relative or a nonrelative, or in a licensed home or facility, for the temporary care of a child who is alleged to be or who has been found to be dependent, pending court disposition before or after adjudication. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Shelter hearing: means a hearing in which the court determines whether probable cause exists to keep a child in shelter status pending further investigation of the case. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Substance abuse: means using, without medical reason, any psychoactive or mood-altering drug, including alcohol, in such a manner as to induce impairment resulting in dysfunctional social behavior. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Temporary legal custody: means the relationship that a court creates between a child and an adult relative of the child, legal custodian, agency, or other person approved by the court until a more permanent arrangement is ordered. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits
Victim: means any child who has sustained or is threatened with physical, mental, or emotional injury identified in a report involving child abuse, neglect, or abandonment, or child-on-child sexual abuse. See N.Y. New York City Administrative Code 11-259 - Eligibility for benefits