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- A.R.S. § 8-512.02 · Comprehensive health plan expenditure authority fund; reversion
- A.R.S. § 8-513 · Participation in activities; contact with relatives; placement with siblings; independent living programs
- A.R.S. § 8-514 · Placement in foster homes
- A.R.S. § 8-514.01 · Placement of children with developmental disabilities
- A.R.S. § 8-514.02 · Placement of child
- A.R.S. § 8-514.03 · Kinship foster care; requirements; investigation
- A.R.S. § 8-514.04 · Kinship care program; requirements
- A.R.S. § 8-514.05 · Foster care provider and department access to child health information; consent to treatment
- A.R.S. § 8-514.06 · Out-of-home placement; documents; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-514.07 · Kinship foster care; relative identification and notification; due diligence search
- A.R.S. § 8-514.08 · Educational decisions; parent contact information; inability to locate
- A.R.S. § 8-515 · Time limits on placement in receiving home; court orders
- A.R.S. § 8-515.01 · Local foster care review boards; appointment; exclusions; terms; training; compensation; meetings
- A.R.S. § 8-515.02 · Case assignment; distribution of records
- A.R.S. § 8-515.03 · Duties of local foster care review boards
- A.R.S. § 8-515.04 · State foster care review board; members; personnel; training programs; annual report; compensation
- A.R.S. § 8-515.05 · Removal of child from foster parent's home; requirements; notification; review
- A.R.S. § 8-516 · Supervision of foster homes; reports; review of file; progress report
- A.R.S. § 8-517 · Withdrawal from foster home
- A.R.S. § 8-518 · Central registry; change of address; marital status
- A.R.S. § 8-519 · Records and reports
- A.R.S. § 8-520 · Violations; classification
- A.R.S. § 8-521 · Independent living program; conditions; eligibility; rules; progress reports; educational case management unit
- A.R.S. § 8-521.01 · Transitional independent living program
- A.R.S. § 8-521.02 · Extended foster care program; requirements
- A.R.S. § 8-521.03 · Extended foster care comprehensive service model; extended foster care success coaching program; quality review committee; reporting requirements; fund; definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-522 · Dependency actions; special advocate; appointment; duties; immunity
- A.R.S. § 8-523 · Special advocate program
- A.R.S. § 8-524 · Court appointed special advocate and vulnerable persons fund
- A.R.S. § 8-525 · Open court proceedings; closure; records
- A.R.S. § 8-526 · Child welfare; reporting requirements; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-527 · Children in out-of-home care; noninterference with regular school activities
- A.R.S. § 8-528 · Newborn infants left with safe haven providers; placement protocol; definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-529 · Children in foster care and kinship foster care; rights
- A.R.S. § 8-530 · Foster parents and kinship foster care parents; rights
- A.R.S. § 8-530.01 · Placement of a child returning to foster care; notification
- A.R.S. § 8-530.02 · Child welfare; joint annual report
- A.R.S. § 8-530.03 · Child placement; time limits
- A.R.S. § 8-530.04 · Educational placement; best interest of child; transportation
- A.R.S. § 8-530.05 · Transportation; dispute resolution
- A.R.S. § 8-530.06 · Group foster homes; employees; random drug screening
- A.R.S. § 8-530.07 · Leaving care of the department; safe and stable housing; report; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-530.08 · Congregate care; assessment; plans; definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-530.09 · DCS caseworker; school visit; identification requirement
- A.R.S. § 8-530.10 · Security freeze; credit report; dependent children in department care; parental notification; definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-531 · Definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-531.01 · Prohibition
- A.R.S. § 8-532 · Jurisdiction; dependency based termination
- A.R.S. § 8-533 · Petition; who may file; grounds
- A.R.S. § 8-534 · Contents of petition
- A.R.S. § 8-535 · Notice of initial hearing; waiver; guardian ad litem
- A.R.S. § 8-536 · Social study before disposition; contents
- A.R.S. § 8-537 · Termination adjudication hearing
- A.R.S. § 8-538 · Court order; form; contents
- A.R.S. § 8-539 · Effect of court order
- A.R.S. § 8-540 · Court costs
- A.R.S. § 8-541 · Records; disclosure; exception
- A.R.S. § 8-542 · Confidentiality of information; violation; classification
- A.R.S. § 8-543 · Sibling information exchange program; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-544 · Termination decrees of other states
- A.R.S. § 8-547 · Restoration of parent child relationship; definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-548 · Enactment of compact; terms
- A.R.S. § 8-548.01 · Financial responsibility
- A.R.S. § 8-548.02 · Interstate compact administrator
- A.R.S. § 8-548.03 · Supplementary agreements
- A.R.S. § 8-548.04 · Financial arrangements
- A.R.S. § 8-548.05 · Visitation, inspection and supervision
- A.R.S. § 8-548.06 · Responsibilities of state departments, agencies and officers
- A.R.S. § 8-550.01 · Child abuse prevention fund; purpose; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-801 · Definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-802 · Child safety worker; fingerprint clearance cards; interview requirements; temporary custody limit; cooperation and coordination; alteration of files; violation; classification
- A.R.S. § 8-803 · Limitation of authority; duty to inform
- A.R.S. § 8-804 · Central registry; notification; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-804.01 · Maintenance of reports; records
- A.R.S. § 8-804.02 · Tiered system for placement on central registry; rules
- A.R.S. § 8-804.03 · DCS information; central registry information; board of fingerprinting
- A.R.S. § 8-805 · Immunity of participants; nonprivileged communications
- A.R.S. § 8-806 · Voluntary placement; conditions; notice of placement; time limit; rules
- A.R.S. § 8-807 · DCS information; public record; use; confidentiality; violation; classification
- A.R.S. § 8-807.01 · Incidents involving fatality or near fatality; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-808 · Parent assistance program
- A.R.S. § 8-809 · Parents' rights; information on website; rule changes
- A.R.S. § 8-809.01 · Parents, guardians and custodians; rights
- A.R.S. § 8-810 · Missing; abducted; runaway children; notification; training; audit
- A.R.S. § 8-811 · Hearing process; definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-812 · Child welfare agency; nonoperating identification license; photograph
- A.R.S. § 8-813 · Preplacement investigation; medical examination; disposition
- A.R.S. § 8-814 · Permanent guardianship subsidy; offsets; annual review; discontinuation; appeals; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-815 · Indian child welfare act; inquiry
- A.R.S. § 8-816 · Family builders program; services; definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-817 · Initial screening and safety assessment and investigation protocols
- A.R.S. § 8-819 · Determination of neglect
- A.R.S. § 8-821 · Taking into temporary custody; medical examination; forensic interview; placement; interference; violation; classification; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-822 · Removal of child from home; rules and policies; approval; definition
- A.R.S. § 8-823 · Notice of taking into temporary custody
- A.R.S. § 8-824 · Preliminary protective hearing; parents' rights; probable cause; placement of child
- A.R.S. § 8-825 · Court determinations in preliminary protective hearing
- A.R.S. § 8-826 · Further hearings and proceedings
- A.R.S. § 8-827 · Background checks of adults residing in potential emergency placement homes; disqualifying criminal offenses; definitions
- A.R.S. § 8-829 · Judicial determinations; timing; documentation