Reasonable Efforts to Reunify Families South Carolina

What Are Reasonable Efforts

Statute: § 20-7-763

As determined by the family court

When Reasonable Efforts Are Required

Statute: § 20-7-763

The family court may rule on whether reasonable efforts to preserve or reunify a family should be required.

When Reasonable Efforts Are NOT Required

for California

Statute: § 20-7-763>

The parent has subjected the child to one or more aggravated circumstance: severe or repeated abuse or neglect, sexual abuse, torture, or abandonment
The parent has been convicted of murder or voluntary manslaughter of another child of the parent or of aiding, abetting, or attempting to commit such crime

The parent has been convicted of physical abuse of a child that resulted in death or admission to a hospital for in-patient care
Parental rights to another child have been terminated involuntarily

Other circumstances exist that the court finds
make continuation or implementation of reasonable
efforts inconsistent with the permanent plan for
the child