Permanency Planning Nevada

Best Interests of the Child

Statute: Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 128.005(2)(c) (1997)

Law:

The legislature finds that the continuing needs of a child for proper physical, mental, and emotional growth and development are the decisive considerations in proceedings for termination of parental rights.

Concurrent Planning

Statute: Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 432B.393(2) (WESTLAW through Nev. 2003 Legis. Serv., Ch. 2)

Law:

The agency which provides child welfare services may make reasonable efforts to place the child for adoption of with a legal guardian concurrently with making the reasonable efforts required to preserve and reunify the family of a child.