Texas Administrative Code
Title 40 - SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE
Part 19 - DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Chapter 700 - CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
Subchapter K - COURT-RELATED SERVICES
Section 700.1107 - Notifying the Court

Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024

Unless the court indicates that it does not want to be notified, the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (PRS) must notify the court or the court's designee of the following actions and events involving a child in PRS's managing conservatorship:

(1) circumstances that may be harmful to the child, including, but not limited to:

(A) serious or life-endangering illness, or death;

(B) consideration of the withdrawal of life-support systems or the withholding of medically indicated treatment;

(C) abuse or neglect of the child in a foster home, an adoptive home, a relative's home, or the child's own home;

(D) loss of contact with the child because the child has run away or been kidnapped by a parent or relative; and

(E) the child's having placed himself in an independent living arrangement;

(2) the child's leaving the court's geographic jurisdiction; and

(3) PRS's placement of the child in foster or substitute care after having returned the child to the parents (notification of which is required in the Texas Family Code, § 263.004).

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