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2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 32A - Children's Code
Article 3B - Families in Need of Court-Ordered Services
Section 32A-3B-2 - Definitions. (2009)
NM Stat § 32A-3B-2 (2013) What's This?
32A-3B-2. Definitions. (2009)
As used in Chapter 32A, Article 3B NMSA 1978, "family in need of court-ordered services" means the child or the family has refused family services or the department has exhausted appropriate and available family services and court intervention is necessary to provide family services to the child or family and the following circumstances exist:
A. it is a family whose child, subject to compulsory school attendance, is absent from school without an authorized excuse more than ten days during a school year;
B. it is a family whose child is absent from the child's place of residence for a time period of twelve hours or more without consent of the child's parent, guardian or custodian;
C. it is a family whose child refuses to return home and there is good cause to believe that the child will run away from home if forced to return to the parent, guardian or custodian; or
D. it is a family in which the child's parent, guardian or custodian refuses to allow the child to return home and a petition alleging neglect of the child is not in the child's best interests."
History: 1978 Comp., § 32A-3B-2, enacted by Laws 1993, ch. 77, § 74; 2007, ch. 185, § 1; 2009, ch. 193, § 5.
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