Syfert Injury Law Firm

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.

Resources and information.

Attorney’s fees.

Sheltering unmarried minors; aiding unmarried minor runaways; violations.

Children locked out of the home; interagency cooperation.

Punishment for contempt of court; alternative sanctions.

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.

Truancy petition; prosecution; disposition.

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.

Powers of disposition; placement in a staff-secure shelter.

Physically secure setting.

Court and witness fees.

Appeal.