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United States — Arizona
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The court can decide where a dependent child is placed, but must prioritize the child’s health, safety, best interests, family reunification, and sibling contact unless doing so would be unsafe or not in the child’s best interests.
United States — Arizona
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The court must order the department to make reasonable efforts to provide services to a child and parent after removal from the home, unless subsections D, E, or F apply.
United States — Arizona
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The court must hold periodic review hearings at least every six months after the disposition hearing, give notice and participation rights to specified people, and make several review findings. The petitioner must give the court names and addresses of certain foster parents and shelter care facilities.
United States — Arizona
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After a temporary custody hearing, the court must return the child to a parent or guardian if requested and if the court finds the return would not create a substantial risk of harm.
United States — Arizona
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This section requires the court to hold a permanency hearing for a child within set time limits and to decide the child’s permanent plan.
United States — Arizona
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Before the initial termination hearing, the party filing the motion must serve it on all parties. The court may terminate parental rights if statutory grounds are proven, and it may treat a nonappearing parent as having waived rights after proper service.
United States — Arizona
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The court may allow certain motions to be filed before the permanency hearing and may consolidate or reorder hearings if the stated timing requirements are met.
United States — Arizona
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This section gives a party a right to seek one change of judge without cause, and a right to seek a change for cause if listed grounds exist. It also sets filing deadlines, affidavit and service requirements, waiver rules, and limits what the challenged judge may do before reassignment.
United States — Arizona
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The court may create a permanent guardianship for a child only if the best-interests test and listed conditions are met.
United States — Arizona
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This section sets the procedure for seeking permanent guardianship in a dependency case, including filing requirements, notice, hearing timing, evidence standards, investigation, fingerprint checks, and court powers.
United States — Arizona
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This section lets certain people ask the court to revoke a permanent guardianship, and it requires the court to appoint a guardian ad litem in revocation proceedings.
United States — Arizona
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The court must order reunification services, and may first set a hearing, if a parent of a child under permanent guardianship asks to participate and shows changed circumstances and the child's best interests.
United States — Arizona
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This section lets certain people ask the court to appoint a successor permanent guardian if the current guardian cannot or will not continue.
United States — Arizona
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The joint administrators must consider several program-development issues and include procedures requiring treatment providers to keep the court informed in dependency cases.
United States — Arizona
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The department of child safety and AHCCCS must set requirements for contractors serving community substance abuse prevention and treatment programs.
United States — Arizona
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The department must set evaluation factors for community substance abuse prevention and treatment programs, hire an evaluator, and the evaluator must report quarterly and file an annual statewide report by November 1.
United States — Arizona
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A court may order in-home intervention in a dependency case if the stated conditions are met, and the order must set a completion time of no more than one year unless the court reviews and approves a longer period.
United States — Arizona
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If a parent, guardian, or custodian violates an in-home intervention order, the court may take steps to secure compliance or may rescind the order and set a dependency adjudication hearing.
United States — Arizona
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Law enforcement agencies that get a missing, kidnapped, or runaway child report must promptly enter and update information, help with searches, coordinate with child welfare and missing-child centers, and keep the record in the system until the child is found or the case is closed.
United States — Arizona
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This section bars state government and certain private enforcers from discriminating against adoption and foster care providers or custody recipients because of religious belief or exercise of religion, and it creates remedies and deadlines for enforcement.