Termination of Parental Rights - Optional Filing 624-05-15-30-05

(Revised 2/10/07 ML #3053)

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PI 21-17 Attachment G

 

 

The agency may file a petition to the court for Termination of Parental Rights at any time if any one of the three following conditions pertains:

  1. The parent has abandoned the child.
  2. The parent has given written consent to the Termination, acknowledged before the court.
  3. The child is deprived and the court finds any one of the following:
  1. The conditions and causes of the deprivation are likely to continue or not be remedied and that by reason thereof the child is suffering or will probably suffer serious physical, mental, moral, or emotional harm; or
  2. The child has been in foster care or in the custody of the agency, county social service board, or the Division of Juvenile Services for at least 450 of the previous 660 nights; or
  3. A court of competent jurisdiction has convicted the child’s parent of one of the following crimes in North Dakota, or of a substantially similar offense under the laws of another jurisdiction: murder, manslaughter, or negligent homicide of a child of the parent; aiding, abetting, attempting, conspiring, or soliciting the same crimes; or aggravated assault in which the victim is a child of the parent and has suffered serious bodily injury.