Florida Statutes Title XLVII Chapter 984 - Children And Families In Need Of Services
- 984.01 - Purposes And Intent; Personnel Standards And Screening.
(1) The purposes of this chapter are:(a) To provide judicial and other procedures to assure due process through which children and other interested parties are assured fair...
- 984.02 - Legislative Intent For The Juvenile Justice System.
(1) GENERAL PROTECTIONS FOR CHILDREN.—It is a purpose of the Legislature that the children of this state be provided with the following protections:(a) Protection from abuse, neglect,...
- 984.03 - Definitions.
When used in this chapter, the term:(1) “Abandoned” means a situation in which the parent or legal custodian of a child or, in the absence of...
- 984.04 - Families In Need Of Services And Children In Need Of Services; Procedures And Jurisdiction.
(1) It is the intent of the Legislature to address the problems of families in need of services by providing them with an array of services...
- 984.06 - Oaths, Records, And Confidential Information.
(1) The judge, clerks or deputy clerks, or authorized agents of the department shall each have the power to administer oaths and affirmations.(2) The court shall make...
- 984.07 - Appointed Counsel; Compensation.
If counsel is entitled to receive compensation for representation pursuant to court appointment in a child-in-need-of-services proceeding, such compensation shall not exceed $1,000 at the...
- 984.071 - Information Packet.
The Department of Juvenile Justice, in collaboration with the Department of Children and Families and the Department of Education, shall develop and publish an information...
- 984.08 - Attorney’s Fees.
The court may appoint an attorney to represent a parent or legal guardian under this chapter only upon a finding that the parent or legal...
- 984.085 - Sheltering Unmarried Minors; Aiding Unmarried Minor Runaways; Violations.
(1)(a) A person who is not an authorized agent of the Department of Juvenile Justice or the Department of Children and Families may not knowingly shelter...
- 984.086 - Children Locked Out Of The Home; Interagency Cooperation.
The Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Children and Families shall encourage interagency cooperation within each circuit and shall develop comprehensive agreements between...
- 984.09 - Punishment For Contempt Of Court; Alternative Sanctions.
(1) CONTEMPT OF COURT; LEGISLATIVE INTENT.—The court may punish any child for contempt for interfering with the court or with court administration, or for violating any...
- 984.10 - Intake.
(1) Intake shall be performed by the department. A report or complaint alleging that a child is from a family in need of services shall be...
- 984.11 - Services To Families In Need Of Services.
(1) Services and treatment to families in need of services shall be by voluntary agreement of the parent or legal guardian and the child or as...
- 984.12 - Case Staffing; Services And Treatment To A Family In Need Of Services.
(1) The appropriate representative of the department shall request a meeting of the family and child with a case staffing committee to review the case of...
- 984.13 - Taking Into Custody A Child Alleged To Be From A Family In Need Of Services Or To Be A Child In Need Of Services.
(1) A child may be taken into custody:(a) By a law enforcement officer when the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the child has run away...
- 984.14 - Shelter Placement; Hearing.
(1) Unless ordered by the court pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, or upon voluntary consent to placement by the child and the child’s parent,...
- 984.15 - Petition For A Child In Need Of Services.
(1) All proceedings seeking an adjudication that a child is a child in need of services shall be initiated by the filing of a petition by...
- 984.151 - Truancy Petition; Prosecution; Disposition.
(1) If the school determines that a student subject to compulsory school attendance has had at least five unexcused absences, or absences for which the reasons...
- 984.16 - Process And Service.
(1) Personal appearance of any person in a hearing before the court shall obviate the necessity of serving process on that person.(2) Upon the filing of a...
- 984.17 - Response To Petition And Representation Of Parties.
(1) At the time a petition is filed, the court may appoint a guardian ad litem for the child.(2) No answer to the petition or any other...
- 984.18 - Referral Of Child-in-need-of-services Cases To Mediation.
(1) At any stage in a child-in-need-of-services proceeding, the case staffing committee or any party may request the court to refer the parties to mediation in...
- 984.19 - Medical Screening And Treatment Of Child; Examination Of Parent, Guardian, Or Person Requesting Custody.
(1) When any child is to be placed in shelter care, the department is authorized to have a medical screening performed on the child without authorization...
- 984.20 - Hearings For Child-in-need-of-services Cases.
(1) ARRAIGNMENT HEARING.—(a) When a child has been taken into custody by order of the court, an arraignment hearing shall be held within 7 days after the...
- 984.21 - Orders Of Adjudication.
(1) If the court finds that the child named in a petition is not a child in need of services, it shall enter an order so...
- 984.22 - Powers Of Disposition.
(1) If the court finds that services and treatment have not been provided or utilized by a child or family, the court having jurisdiction of the...
- 984.225 - Powers Of Disposition; Placement In A Staff-secure Shelter.
(1) Subject to specific legislative appropriation, the court may order that a child adjudicated as a child in need of services be placed for up to...
- 984.226 - Physically Secure Setting.
(1) Subject to specific legislative appropriation, the Department of Juvenile Justice shall establish physically secure settings designated exclusively for the placement of children in need of...
- 984.23 - Court And Witness Fees.
In all proceedings under this chapter, no court fees shall be charged against, and no witness fees shall be allowed to, any party to a...
- 984.24 - Appeal.
The state, any child, or the family, guardian ad litem, or legal custodian of any child who is affected by an order of the court...
Last modified: September 23, 2016