Okla. Stat. tit. 10A, § 10A-2-2-105: Order removing child from home prohibited absent

certain determinations.

No order of the court providing for the initial or continued

removal of a child alleged or adjudicated delinquent or in need of

supervision from the child’s home shall be entered unless the court

finds that the continuation of the child in the home of the child is

contrary to the welfare of the child. The order shall include

either:

1. A determination as to whether or not reasonable efforts have

been made to prevent the need for the removal of the child from the

home or, as appropriate, reasonable efforts have been made to

provide for the return of the child to the home; or

2. A determination as to whether or not an absence of efforts

to prevent the removal of the child from the home is reasonable upon

consideration of the family circumstances, the safety of the child

and the protection of the public; or

3. A determination that reasonable efforts to prevent the

removal of the child from the home or to reunify the child and

family are not required because:

a. a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that

the parent has subjected the child to one of the

following aggravated circumstances: abandonment,

torture, chronic abuse, sexual abuse or chronic, life-

threatening neglect of the child,

b. a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that

the parent has been convicted of one of the following:

(1) murder of another child of the parent,

(2) voluntary manslaughter of another child of the

parent,

(3) aiding or abetting, attempting, conspiring, or

soliciting to commit such a murder or such a

voluntary manslaughter, or

(4) a felony assault that results in serious bodily

injury to the child or another child of the

parent, or

c. the parental rights of the parent with respect to a

sibling have been terminated involuntarily.