Motion to terminate placement
§ 1062. Motion to terminate placement. Any interested person acting on behalf of a child placed under section one thousand fifty-five of this article, the child's parent, or the person legally responsible for the child may make a motion to the court for an order terminating the placement. The motion must:
(a) show that an application for the child's return to his or her home was made to an appropriate person in the place in which the child was placed;
(b) show that the application was denied or was not granted within thirty days from the day application was made; and
(c) be accompanied by a sworn affidavit stating the grounds for the motion.
An interested person, the parent, or PLR can move to end a § 1055 placement. The motion must show a return application was made and was denied or not granted within 30 days, plus a sworn affidavit of grounds. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 5 — The JG-22 Family Court Act and in Volume 1 — The JG-22 in Plain English.