New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 3A - CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
Chapter 21 - TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS
CHAPTER
SOURCE AND EFFECTIVE DATE:
Effective: November 10, 2022.
See: 54 N.J.R. 2371(a).
CHAPTER HISTORICAL NOTE:
Chapter
133J, Termination of Parental Rights, was adopted as R.1997 d.362, effective
September 2, 1997. See: 28 N.J.R. 3866(a), 29 N.J.R. 3896(a).
Chapter
133J, Termination of Parental Rights, was readopted as R.2003 d.39, effective
December 20, 2002. As a part of R.2003 d.39, Subchapter 4, Involuntary Termination
of Parental Rights, was repealed, effective January 21, 2003. See: 34 N.J.R.
1241(a), 35 N.J.R. 405(b).
Chapter 133J, Termination of Parental
Rights, was readopted as R.2008 d.191, effective June 17, 2008. See: 40 N.J.R.
587(a), 40 N.J.R. 4320(c).
In accordance with
N.J.S.A.
52:14B-5.1b, Chapter 133J, Termination of Parental
Rights, was scheduled to expire on June 17, 2015. See: 43 N.J.R. 1203(a).
Chapter 133J, Termination of Parental Rights, was readopted as R.2016
d.006, effective December 11, 2015. See: Source and Effective Date. See, also,
section annotations.
Chapter 21, Termination of Parental Rights, was
recodified from N.J.A.C. 10:133J, Termination of Parental Rights, by administrative
change, effective January 3, 2017. As part of the recodification, attendant
technical changes were made to the rule text concerning cross-references, agency
names, addresses, etc. See: 49 N.J.R. 98(a).
Chapter 21, Termination of
Parental Rights, was readopted, effective November 10, 2022. See: Source and
Effective Date.
CHAPTER AUTHORITY:
N.J.S.A. 30:4C-1 et seq., and 30:4C-15 through 23.