2015 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 10A. Children and Juvenile Code
§10A-2-2-105. Order removing child from home prohibited absent certain determinations.

No order of the court providing for the initial or continued removal of a child alleged or adjudicated delinquent or in need of supervision from the child’s home shall be entered unless the court finds that the continuation of the child in the home of the child is contrary to the welfare of the child. The order shall include either:

1. A determination as to whether or not reasonable efforts have been made to prevent the need for the removal of the child from the home or, as appropriate, reasonable efforts have been made to provide for the return of the child to the home; or

2. A determination as to whether or not an absence of efforts to prevent the removal of the child from the home is reasonable upon consideration of the family circumstances, the safety of the child and the protection of the public; or

3. A determination that reasonable efforts to prevent the removal of the child from the home or to reunify the child and family are not required because:

a.a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that the parent has subjected the child to one of the following aggravated circumstances: abandonment, torture, chronic abuse, sexual abuse or chronic, life-threatening neglect of the child,

b.a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that the parent has been convicted of one of the following:

(1)murder of another child of the parent,

(2)voluntary manslaughter of another child of the parent,

(3)aiding or abetting, attempting, conspiring, or soliciting to commit such a murder or such a voluntary manslaughter, or

(4)a felony assault that results in serious bodily injury to the child or another child of the parent, or

c.the parental rights of the parent with respect to a sibling have been terminated involuntarily.

Added by Laws 1995, c. 352, § 117, eff. July 1, 1995. Amended by Laws 2002, c. 473, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2009, c. 234, § 43, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009. Renumbered from § 7303-1.4 of Title 10 by Laws 2009, c. 234, § 178, emerg. eff. May 21, 2009.