Chapter 39 PROCEEDINGS RELATING TO CHILDREN
- PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS(ss. 39.001-39.0141)
- 39.001 Purposes and intent; personnel standards and screening.
- 39.0011 Direct-support organization.
- 39.0014 Responsibilities of public agencies.
- 39.00145 Records concerning children.
- 39.0015 Child abuse prevention training in the district school system.
- 39.0016 Education of abused, neglected, and abandoned children; agency agreements; children having or suspected of having a disability.
- 39.01 Definitions.
- 39.011 Immunity from liability.
- 39.012 Rules for implementation.
- 39.0121 Specific rulemaking authority.
- 39.013 Procedures and jurisdiction; right to counsel.
- 39.0131 Permanent mailing address designation.
- 39.0132 Oaths, records, and confidential information.
- 39.0133 Court and witness fees.
- 39.0134 Appointed counsel; compensation.
- 39.0135 Operations and Maintenance Trust Fund.
- 39.0136 Time limitations; continuances.
- 39.0137 Federal law; rulemaking authority.
- 39.0138 Criminal history records check; limit on placement of a child.
- 39.0139 Visitation or other contact; restrictions.
- 39.0141 Missing children; report required.
- PART II REPORTING CHILD ABUSE(ss. 39.201-39.206)
- 39.201 Mandatory reports of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect; mandatory reports of death; central abuse hotline.
- 39.202 Confidentiality of reports and records in cases of child abuse or neglect.
- 39.2021 Release of confidential information.
- 39.203 Immunity from liability in cases of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
- 39.204 Abrogation of privileged communications in cases involving child abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
- 39.205 Penalties relating to reporting of child abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
- 39.206 Administrative fines for false report of abuse, abandonment, or neglect of a child; civil damages.
- PART III PROTECTIVE INVESTIGATIONS(ss. 39.301-39.308)
- 39.301 Initiation of protective investigations.
- 39.302 Protective investigations of institutional child abuse, abandonment, or neglect.
- 39.303 Child protection teams; services; eligible cases.
- 39.3031 Rules for implementation of ss. 39.303 and 39.305.
- 39.3032 Memorandum of agreement.
- 39.3035 Child advocacy centers; standards; state funding.
- 39.304 Photographs, medical examinations, X rays, and medical treatment of abused, abandoned, or neglected child.
- 39.305 Intervention and treatment in sexual abuse cases; model plan.
- 39.306 Child protective investigations; working agreements with local law enforcement.
- 39.3065 Sheriffs of certain counties to provide child protective investigative services; procedures; funding.
- 39.307 Reports of child-on-child sexual abuse.
- 39.308 Guidelines for onsite child protective investigation.
- PART IV FAMILY BUILDERS PROGRAM(ss. 39.311-39.318)
- PART IX PERMANENCY(ss. 39.621-39.6241)
- PART V TAKING CHILDREN INTO CUSTODY AND SHELTER HEARINGS(ss. 39.395-39.4085)
- 39.395 Detaining a child; medical or hospital personnel.
- 39.401 Taking a child alleged to be dependent into custody; law enforcement officers and authorized agents of the department.
- 39.402 Placement in a shelter.
- 39.407 Medical, psychiatric, and psychological examination and treatment of child; physical, mental, or substance abuse examination of person with or requesting child custody.
- 39.4075 Referral of a dependency case to mediation.
- 39.4085 Legislative findings and declaration of intent for goals for dependent children.
- PART VI PETITION, ARRAIGNMENT, ADJUDICATION, AND DISPOSITION(ss. 39.501-39.510)
- 39.501 Petition for dependency.
- 39.502 Notice, process, and service.
- 39.503 Identity or location of parent unknown; special procedures.
- 39.504 Injunction pending disposition of petition; penalty.
- 39.505 No answer required.
- 39.506 Arraignment hearings.
- 39.507 Adjudicatory hearings; orders of adjudication.
- 39.5075 Citizenship or residency status for immigrant children who are dependents.
- 39.5085 Relative Caregiver Program.
- 39.509 Grandparents rights.
- 39.510 Appeal.
- PART VII DISPOSITION; POSTDISPOSITION CHANGE OF CUSTODY(ss. 39.521-39.523)
- PART VIII CASE PLANS(ss. 39.6011-39.604)
- 39.6011 Case plan development.
- 39.6012 Case plan tasks; services.
- 39.6013 Case plan amendments.
- 39.602 Case planning when parents do not participate and the child is in out-of-home care.
- 39.603 Court approvals of case planning.
- 39.604 Rilya Wilson Act; short title; legislative intent; requirements; attendance and reporting responsibilities.
- PART X JUDICIAL REVIEWS(ss. 39.701-39.704)
- PART XI TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS(ss. 39.801-39.817)
- 39.801 Procedures and jurisdiction; notice; service of process.
- 39.802 Petition for termination of parental rights; filing; elements.
- 39.803 Identity or location of parent unknown after filing of termination of parental rights petition; special procedures.
- 39.804 Penalties for false statements of paternity.
- 39.805 No answer required.
- 39.8055 Requirement to file a petition to terminate parental rights; exceptions.
- 39.806 Grounds for termination of parental rights.
- 39.807 Right to counsel; guardian ad litem.
- 39.808 Advisory hearing; pretrial status conference.
- 39.809 Adjudicatory hearing.
- 39.810 Manifest best interests of the child.
- 39.811 Powers of disposition; order of disposition.
- 39.812 Postdisposition relief; petition for adoption.
- 39.813 Continuing jurisdiction.
- 39.814 Oaths, records, and confidential information.
- 39.815 Appeal.
- 39.816 Authorization for pilot and demonstration projects.
- 39.817 Foster care privatization demonstration pilot project.
- PART XII GUARDIANS AD LITEM AND GUARDIAN ADVOCATES(ss. 39.820-39.8298)
- 39.820 Definitions.
- 39.821 Qualifications of guardians ad litem.
- 39.822 Appointment of guardian ad litem for abused, abandoned, or neglected child.
- 39.823 Guardian advocates for drug dependent newborns.
- 39.824 Procedures and jurisdiction.
- 39.825 Petition for appointment of a guardian advocate.
- 39.826 Process and service.
- 39.827 Hearing for appointment of a guardian advocate.
- 39.828 Grounds for appointment of a guardian advocate.
- 39.829 Powers and duties of guardian advocate.
- 39.8295 Review and removal of guardian advocate.
- 39.8296 Statewide Guardian Ad Litem Office; legislative findings and intent; creation; appointment of executive director; duties of office.
- 39.8298 Guardian Ad Litem direct-support organization.
- PART XIII DOMESTIC VIOLENCE(ss. 39.901-39.908)
- 39.901 Domestic violence cases; treatment and rehabilitation of victims and perpetrators; legislative intent.
- 39.902 Definitions.
- 39.903 Duties and functions of the department with respect to domestic violence.
- 39.904 Report to the Legislature on the status of domestic violence cases.
- 39.905 Domestic violence centers.
- 39.9055 Certified domestic violence centers; capital improvement grant program.
- 39.906 Referral to centers and notice of rights.
- 39.908 Confidentiality of information received by department or domestic violence center.