NAC432B.262. Termination of parental rights.

The agency which provides child welfare services shall file a petition for the termination of the parental rights of the parents of a child who has been in foster care under the responsibility of the state and for whom the presumption that the best interests of the child would be served by the termination of parental rights has become effective pursuant to subsection 4 of NRS 432B.590 unless:

     1. The child has been placed with a relative at the option of the agency which provides child welfare services;

     2. The agency which provides child welfare services has documented in the case plan available for court review a compelling reason for determining that filing such a petition would not be in the best interests of the child; or

     3. The agency which provides child welfare services has not, in accordance with NRS 432B.393, provided to the family of the child, consistent with the time set forth in the case plan, such services as are determined by the agency which provides child welfare services to be necessary for the safe return of the child to the child’s home.

     (Added to NAC by Div. of Child & Fam. Services by R068-99, eff. 11-8-99; A by R045-02, 7-23-2002)