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TITLE 40SOCIAL SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE
PART 19DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES
CHAPTER 700CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES
SUBCHAPTER KCOURT-RELATED SERVICES
RULE §700.1107Notifying the Court

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).


Source Note: The provisions of this §700.1107 adopted to be effective May 15, 1992, 17 TexReg 2783; transferred effective September 1, 1992, as published in the Texas Register September 11, 1992, 17 TexReg 6279.

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