<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 26-8A-21 - Reasonable efforts to eliminate need for removal--Reasonable efforts to return child to home--Determining adequacy of efforts. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2050759Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2050759SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2050759CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2050759Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2050759DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2050759Normal-000001 { text-indent: 0.25in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } p.s2050759Normal-000002 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2050759000003 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2050759SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2050759SCL-000004 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=26-8A-21"><span class="s2050759SENU">26-8A-21</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050759SENU">. </span><span class="s2050759CL">Reasonable efforts to eliminate need for removal--Reasonable efforts to return child to home--Determining adequacy of efforts.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal-000000"><span class="s2050759DefaultParagraphFont">The Department of Social Services shall make reasonable efforts prior to the removal of an alleged or adjudicated abused or neglected child from the home of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian to prevent or eliminate the need for removal of the child. If the child has been removed from the home and has been placed in temporary custody of the department, the department shall make reasonable efforts to make it possible for the child to return to the home of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian. If the child is to be or has been removed from the home, the court shall first make a judicial determination that removal of the child from the home is or was necessary because continued presence of the child in the home would be contrary to the welfare of the child and that reasonable efforts by the department to avoid removal of the child from the home have been made. If the child has been removed from the home and has not been returned to the home, the court shall first make a judicial determination that reasonable efforts have been made by the department to return the child to the home and that the child cannot be returned to the home because it would be contrary to the welfare of the child.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal-000001"><span class="s2050759DefaultParagraphFont">Reasonable efforts to prevent the necessity for removal of a child from the home of the child's parents, guardian, or custodian and reasonable efforts to return the child to the home mean provision by the department of any assistance or services that:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal-000002"><span class="s2050759DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    Are appropriate for the child's parents, guardian, custodian, or any other caretaker family of the child existing at the time of removal or possible return of the child, including instruction on parenting;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal-000002"><span class="s2050759DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Are available pursuant to the comprehensive plan of preventive services of the department;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal-000002"><span class="s2050759DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    Could be made available without undue financial burden on the department; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal-000002"><span class="s2050759DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    Would have a significant likelihood of protecting the child from substantial danger to the child's physical health or from severe emotional damage while enabling the child to remain in the home or to be returned to the home.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal-000001"><span class="s2050759DefaultParagraphFont">In determining the adequacy of reasonable efforts, the court shall consider the assistance, services, and efforts of the department. The court shall also consider the good faith efforts or the lack of good faith efforts made by the child's parents, guardian, custodian, or other caretaker family to cooperate with the department and to effectively utilize the assistance or services for the benefit and welfare of the child.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050759000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050759Normal"><span class="s2050759SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050759SCL-000004"> SL 1989, ch 231, § 3; SL 1991, ch 217, § 130B; SDCL Supp, § 26-8-35.5; SL 1998, ch 161, § 1; SL 1998, ch 162, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 26-8A-21 - Reasonable efforts to eliminate need for removal--Reasonable efforts to return child to home--Determining adequacy of efforts. </title><meta 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text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2050760000002 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2050760SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2050760SCL-000003 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=26-8A-21.1"><span class="s2050760SENU">26-8A-21.1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760SENU">. </span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760CL">Exceptions to § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=26-8A-21"><span class="s2050760CL">26-8A-21</span></a><span class="s2050760CL">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000000"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">Nothing in § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=26-8A-21"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">26-8A-21</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont"> requires reunification of a child with a parent who:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    Committed a crime defined in § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-16-4"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-16-4</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-16-7"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-16-7</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-16-15"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-16-15</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-16-20"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-16-20</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-22-1"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-22-1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-22-24.3"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-22-24.3</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-22A-2"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-22A-2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-22A-3"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-22A-3</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=26-10-1"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">26-10-1</span></a><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, or subdivision 22-19-1(5), or committed conduct described by any of those statutes that violated the law or ordinance of another jurisdiction having elements similar to an offense described by any of those statutes;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    Aided or abetted, attempted, conspired, or solicited to commit a crime defined in § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-16-4"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-16-4</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-16-7"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-16-7</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-16-15"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-16-15</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, or </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-16-20"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-16-20</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont"> or the law or ordinance of another jurisdiction having elements similar to an offense described by any of those statutes;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    Committed a crime defined in § </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-18-1.1"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-18-1.1</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-22-7"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-22-7</span></a><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">, or subdivision 22-23-2(2) against the child or another child of such parent, or committed conduct described by those sections that violated the law or ordinance of another jurisdiction having elements similar to the offense described by those sections;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    Has been determined by a court by clear and convincing evidence to have subjected the child or another child to torture, sexual abuse, abandonment for at least six months, chronic physical, mental, or emotional injury, or chronic neglect if the neglect was a serious threat to the safety of the child or another child;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(5)    Is incarcerated and is unavailable to care for the child during a significant period of the child's minority, considering the child's age and the child's need for care by an adult;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(6)    Has had parental rights to another child involuntarily terminated by a prior legal proceeding;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(7)    Has a documented history of abuse and neglect associated with chronic alcohol or drug abuse;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(8)    Has exposed the child to or demonstrated an inability to protect the child from substantial harm or the risk of substantial harm, and the child or another child has been removed from the parent's custody because the removed child was adjudicated abused and neglected by a court on at least one previous occasion;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(9)    Has exposed the child to or demonstrated an inability to protect the child from substantial harm or the risk of substantial harm, the child has been removed from the parent's custody on two separate occasions, and the Department of Social Services offered or provided family services on each of the two separate occasions the child was removed; </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(10)    Has exposed the child to or demonstrated an inability to protect the child from substantial harm or risk of harm resulting from a crime, act, or omission as specified in subdivision (1), (2), or (3) of this section; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal-000001"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">(11)    Is required to register as a sex offender pursuant to chapter </span><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=22-24B"><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">22-24B</span></a><span class="s2050760DefaultParagraphFont">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760000002"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050760Normal"><span class="s2050760SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050760SCL-000003"> SL 1998, ch 161, § 2; SL 1999, ch 136, § 1; SL 2001, ch 141, § 1; SL 2007, ch 167, § 1; SL 2012, ch 147, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html><br /><hr><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8" /><meta http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us'/><title>SDLRC - Codified Law 26-8A-21 - Reasonable efforts to eliminate need for removal--Reasonable efforts to return child to home--Determining adequacy of efforts. </title><meta name="Generator" content="PowerTools for Open XML" /><style>span { white-space: pre-wrap; } p.s2050761Normal { text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2050761SENU { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2050761CL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2050761Normal-000000 { text-indent: 0.50in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2050761DefaultParagraphFont { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } p.s2050761Normal-000001 { margin-left: 0.70in; text-indent: -0.45in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } p.s2050761Normal-000002 { text-indent: 0.25in; text-align: justify; font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 108%; margin-top: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: .001pt; } span.s2050761000003 { font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2050761SCL { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; margin: 0; padding: 0; } span.s2050761SCL-000004 { font-family: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0; padding: 0; } body { text-decoration-skip-ink: none; } </style></head><body><div><p dir="ltr" class="s2050761Normal"><a href="https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/Codified_Laws/DisplayStatute.aspx?Type=Statute&amp;Statute=26-8A-21.2"><span class="s2050761SENU">26-8A-21.2</span></a><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050761SENU">. </span><span class="s2050761CL">Permanency hearing required if child is not to be returned to parents--Court to determine placement--Final dispositional hearing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050761Normal-000000"><span class="s2050761DefaultParagraphFont">If the court has determined that reasonable efforts to return an adjudicated abused or neglected child to the home of the parent, guardian, or custodian are not appropriate, a permanency hearing shall be held within thirty days after the determination. At the permanency hearing, the court shall determine if:</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050761Normal-000001"><span class="s2050761DefaultParagraphFont">(1)    The child should be placed for adoption. If the court determines that the child should be placed for adoption, the state shall notify the parties of its intent to seek the termination of parental rights if notice has not already been provided;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050761Normal-000001"><span class="s2050761DefaultParagraphFont">(2)    The child should be referred for legal guardianship;</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050761Normal-000001"><span class="s2050761DefaultParagraphFont">(3)    The child should be placed permanently with a fit and willing relative; or</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050761Normal-000001"><span class="s2050761DefaultParagraphFont">(4)    Only in the case of a child who is sixteen years of age or older, a compelling reason is documented with the court that none of the permanent plans listed in this section would be in the best interest of the child, and the child should be placed in another planned permanent living arrangement. At each permanency hearing for a child placed in another planned permanent living arrangement, the court shall ask the child about the desired permanency outcome for the child and make a judicial determination stating the reasons that another planned permanent living arrangement is the best permanency plan for the child.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050761Normal-000002"><span class="s2050761DefaultParagraphFont">The court may immediately proceed with a final dispositional hearing if proper notice of the hearing has been given.</span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050761Normal"><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050761000003"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" class="s2050761Normal"><span class="s2050761SCL">Source:</span><span xml:space="preserve" class="s2050761SCL-000004"> SL 1999, ch 137, § 1; SL 2005, ch 142, § 1; SL 2016, ch 145, § 1.</span></p></div></body></html>