{"data":{"id":"us-mt/42-10-106","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"42-10-106","heading":"Certification as child with special needs.","body":"(1) Whenever the conditions of 42-10-103 are found to exist and the foster parents seek to adopt the child, the child must be certified as a child with special needs.\n(2) In all other cases in which the conditions of 42-10-103 are found to exist and after reasonable efforts have been made and without subsidy no appropriate adoptive family has been found for a child, the department shall certify the child as a child with special needs.\n(3) If the child is the dependent of a licensed child-placing agency, that agency shall present to the department evidence of inability to place the child for adoption due to any of the conditions specified in 42-10-103. The agency shall present evidence that reasonable efforts have been made to place the child without subsidy. Upon such a showing, the department shall certify the child as a child with special needs.","path":["TITLE 42. ADOPTION","CHAPTER 10. SUBSIDIZED ADOPTIONS","Part 1. Procedures"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0420/chapter_0100/part_0010/section_0060/0420-0100-0010-0060.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:55:19Z","sha256":"2a16ccb5ed2b4fe5646fff13840210103de5b926b7a84b97c935b5f3e64008b8","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/42-10-105","next":"us-mt/42-10-107"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}