tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65252198104355439132024-03-15T18:09:21.959-07:00Michigan Children's InstituteA tribute to the most powerful man in the State of Michigan, Bill Johnson, Superintendent of Michigan's Children's Institute, a person who has parental rights of more than 7,000 foster children, to encourage Governor Rick Snyder to shut down the entire operation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525219810435543913.post-32031716535695624102015-09-29T15:53:00.000-07:002015-09-29T15:53:23.096-07:00Michigan Gives More Power to Steal from Foster Kids<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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So many questions. So little time left in this Legislative session.<br />
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Here you have an honorable Michigan House Bill which, I guess, is an attempt to address foster children being victims of <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">identity theft</span>.<br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: medium;"><i>Q: "Who has access to foster children's Social Security Numbers?"</i></span><br />
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Allow me to clear the air before further examination.<br />
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This Bill gives the power and authority to Caseworkers to do annual <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">credit checks</span> on a child's <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">credit history</span>.<br />
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Mind you, the Bill has no referral mechanism to the Office of Attorney General to investigate how the foster child's information was breached nor is there any mandate to prosecute.<br />
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No training requirements specified for the caseworkers or child placing agencies have been even slightly mentioned.<br />
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Identity theft is a federal crime. Considering the fact that foster care is a federally funded program, one would think there would be some form of collaboration with federal authorities to, at least, intervene and assist in the prosecution, and in certain circumstances, recovery.<br />
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There is not even a whisper about generating an exclusionary database to revoke licenses, sanctions, prosecution or recovery, for individuals who engage in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">fraud</span> against these foster youth.<br />
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So now, within this Bill, there will be annual credit reports, which will be billed to some unidentified funding source, which more than likely be Medicaid, to generate stock piles of more documentation to be lost in the paperwork shuffle of a foster care case, with multiple individuals having undocumented access to the files,<br />
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There is no mention of <a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;">Michigan Children's Institute</a> and its role as the sole, legal <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9" style="background-attachment: scroll !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat !important; background-size: initial !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(0, 153, 0) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;">guardian</span> for more than<a href="http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/6670-children-in-foster-care-waiting-for-adoption?loc=24&loct=2#detailed/2/24/false/36,868,867,133,38/any/13705" style="color: red; text-decoration: none;"> 3,000 in its care.</a><br />
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So why is it that there was the need to even introduce a Bill such as this? Is foster care identity theft that rampant where there is such a need for intervention?<br />
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If child welfare was not such a secret operation, there could be much more collaboration and reduction in numbers of children who are in state care.<br />
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Foster care Social Security Numbers can be used in more ways than with credit to commit fraud.<br />
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I am guessing, as I really do not feel like finding out where he went at this particular moment, that he is doing something with child welfare contracts.<br />
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Now, how did I come to this conclusion?<br />
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Well, the Madame Maura Corrigan has stepped down as DHS Director after successfully running a game on the federal court monitor that "all is well" in Michigan child welfare.<br />
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All is not well, not even close because it seems the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has picked Michigan, under the Madame's leadership, to launch a pilot model for privatizing the entire system of child welfare, or more specifically, foster care. The pilot city is Grand Rapids and it has a long, nasty, sordid history of snatching kids via bible thumping.<br />
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When I say "bible-thumping" I specifically mean the<strike> christian</strike> child placing agencies which are all Michigan non-profit corporations.<br />
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Michigan Legislature just seriously attempted to slam a Bill down the throats of the people under the guise of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). This Bill, mirrored from its namesake federal Act, was originally used as the backbone for the Michigan Parental Rights Resolution which was introduced for an Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. I worked on the construction of the Bill.<br />
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The RFRA federal case was centered on a Child Protective Service case of parents using certain plants with hallucinogenic properties in their traditional, indigenous religious ceremonies. Parenting was transmogrified into a religious belief overnight. <br />
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The Tea Party began to take roots as a family economic movement and I was there to witness. It was built off the desperation of parents who had their children<a href="http://legallykidnapped.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> legally kidnapped</a>. These families became powerful catalysts for the extreme right wing to, predatorially, push through their <strike>"christian"</strike> subversive agendas. Look who launched the Tea Party on "God's economy" (Michele Bachmann's reference to children @ 4:30):<br />
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As few may not know, it takes 3/5ths of the States 7 years to have a
referendum to amend the Constitution. The Parental Rights Amendment did
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RFRA will take the same course as the Parental Rights Amendment, mark my word. Also mark my words when I say that it just might steam roll the national level and become an Amendment as there are a series of states which have already signed on. <br />
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RFRA is not alone in its ride to becoming an Amendment. The Hobby Lobby decision opened the flood gates for legal challenges to "religious freedom" as corporations, legal persons, now have recognized religious beliefs.<br />
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Michigan has introduced, sine die, major changes to its Non-Profit Corporation Law. From a quick overview, I see it is now easier for a not-for-profit to set up and transfer to a for-profit. <br />
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This got me thinking that timing of the shift in Michigan child welfare leadership is not a coincidence. <br />
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<a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20140622/NEWS06/306220096">Michigan spends $1B on charter schools but fails to hold them accountable</a></h1>
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Medicaid Expansion + RFRA + Non-Profit Corporation changes +Privatization = Corporate $$$</div>
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Charter schools do not provide special needs education but child welfare does and the money comes from Medicaid. The federal A+PLUS Act would give direct access to CPS in viewing school records, with no oversight, to generate more child welfare cases by providing special needs services.</div>
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Every corporation is about to hire a child and no one will stop this from being a nationally diffusable model. </div>
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As of this writing, the Michigan Bureau of Adult and Children Licensing no longer has oversight of Grand Rapid child placing agencies. Actually, no one has oversight as the pilot program of privitization has been launched. The only way to file a complaint/grievance is through the state court because, remember, a corporation is a person, too, but soon with protected religious beliefs and the ability to dissolve at the drop of a hat to a for-profit.<br />
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Children under the auspices of the state (ie. foster care, residential institutions, juvenile justice, court child welfare cases) are not calculated in the national child poverty numbers. <br />
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This is God's economic model to reduce child poverty.<br />
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Well, here we go again.<br />
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Michigan is up to its old tricks by coming out with a report to cover up all the billing fraud, ineptness of administrative oversight and what they call "racial inequity" in foster care.<br />
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With just about all of the same who worked on, and were suppose to get it right, they come together again, with shock and awe renewed, on the exact same crap they came out with 8 years ago.<br />
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For your viewing pleasure, I submit the first report on "racial inequity" in foster care from 2006.<br />
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Now, one would think that 8 years later they would have ameliorated, or at least, made an effort to address the issue of the overrepresentation of children of color in child welfare, but of course not, that would be too much like admitting they have no idea how to execute the recommendations made in the report.<br />
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The recommendations of the 2006 report was to find more money to fix the problem, which was, unmentioned in the report, that it was just hit with a salaciously horrific state audit of fraud.<br />
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Here is the result of "wow-we-did-not-know-this-was-a-problem" report findings:<br />
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It should be noted that not one original parent, not one foster kid who survived, participated in this report.<br />
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Nothing in the findings identified the extreme-reaching "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-drop_rule" style="color: #e15ba2; text-decoration: none;">one-drop-rule</a>" labeling technique when sticking a kid, or parents, in a racial category.<br />
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Too bad the state will not, or cannot, investigate agencies like Black Family Development to find out why so many Black kids are in the system.<br />
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By the way, what exactly is "<a href="http://www.blackfamilydevelopment.org/" style="color: #e15ba2; text-decoration: none;">Black Family Development</a>", as opposed to, obviously, I assume there must be the counterpart called "White Family Development"?<br />
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The reason wht there are racial inequities in foster care is because the system was designed that way.<br />
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At least the report did recommend steering away from using poverty as a reason to put kids in the system.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: small;">Here is a fun fact as to why the report found racial disparity in Michigan's foster care system:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>It was <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/10/you-got-goods-i-got-buyer-christian.html#axzz31q8WT4Nl">designed</a> that way!</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Just ask Bill Johnson, Superintendent of the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ea9999;"> </span><a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/2010/12/everyone-meet-bill-johnson.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Michigan Children's Institute.</span></a></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Key findings from a report from the Michigan Race Equity Coalition in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• <b>Minority kids were 2.1 times more likely</b> to age out of foster care than white children. Hispanic kids were 1.1 times more likely, American Indian 1.4 times more likely, and black children 2.3 times more likely to age out of the system.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">• <b>Children from minority families were 1.3 times more likely</b> than white kids to be removed from their families’ homes due to abuse and neglect.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Michigan’s minority children are more than twice as likely as their white counterparts to age out of the foster care system without being adopted or returned to their families, a new report shows.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Children of color also are more likely to be removed from their families for abuse and neglect, according to the report from the Michigan Race Equity Coalition in Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice, to be released today.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“This gives us verifiable data that policymakers, legislators really like,” said Michigan Supreme Court Justice Mary Beth Kelly, who co-chaired the coalition effort with public policy advocate and former legislator Lynn Jondahl. “That is really what moves decision-makers faster.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Those behind the report hope it will help improve early intervention and community-based services for families, win more funding for child abuse and neglect prevention and lead to better training for child welfare workers to help them discern the difference between poverty and neglect.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">About 13,000 kids in Michigan are in foster care at any given time, according to the Department of Human Services. Using data from 2013, the coalition’s report compares the number of minority children with the number of white children in care. It found:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">•Minority kids were 2.1 times more likely to age out of foster care than white children. Hispanic kids were 1.1 times more likely, American Indian 1.4 times more likely and black children 2.3 times more likely to age out of the system.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">•Black children were 1.6 times more likely than white children to live with families investigated for abuse or neglect. Kids from Hispanic or American Indian families were slightly less likely than their white counterparts to live in families investigated for abuse or neglect.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“That suggests we are not doing enough upstream to get these kids safe or keep these kids safe in their own homes,” she said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“A lot of these kids get pulled into the child welfare system because that’s our response rather than helping their families with economic stability,” she said.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“People are really struggling to maintain any kind of stability for their kids,” she said. “It used to be that schools were the bedrock in the community. That’s not the case anymore, particularly in our most desperately poor cities.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kelly said she’s encouraged by some recent changes, including a 2011 law that allows foster kids who meet certain criteria such as working or attending college to receive continuing assistance until they are 21.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jondahl said a pilot program in Saginaw County involving courts, child welfare and juvenile justice systems provides a model for reducing the disproportionate numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">It seems<a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2013/10/michigan-dhs-federal-monitoring.html#axzz2nBaBIWpA"> all eyes</a> are on this pending decision. As soon as the opinion is issued, I will post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">For more background details of the case,<a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2013/10/how-michigan-state-guardian-tried-to.html#axzz2nBaBIWpA"> click here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">The paternal grandmother of siblings who were placed in foster care petitioned the family court to become the children’s guardian. Although the grandmother had moved to Florida from Michigan in 2005, she asserted that she had maintained “very close and loving” relationships with all four children before and after their removal from their mother’s home in October 2008 by the Department of Human Services. (Three of the four siblings were fathered by the petitioner’s son; although the fourth child was fathered by another man, the petitioner maintained that she had known the boy since his birth and had always treated him as her grandson.) According to the grandmother, she frequently watched the children before moving to Florida; after her move, she talked to them on the phone about once a week, sent them birthday and Christmas presents, and visited them during the summers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">While the grandmother’s guardianship petition was pending, the children’s mother agreed to give up her parental rights, pleading no contest to child neglect and allowing her children to become wards of the court. (The fathers’ parental rights were also terminated.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">The family court accepted the mother’s plea and, after an evidentiary hearing, denied the grandmother’s guardianship petition, instead ruling that it was in the children’s best interests to remain with their foster parents, who had already filed a petition to adopt the children. In making this ruling, the trial court used the “best interest” factors in the Child Custody Act, MCL 722.21 </span><em style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">et seq</em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">. The trial court noted that neither the children’s mother nor the petitioner’s son had suggested the petitioner as a guardian; in fact, the mother supported the children remaining with their foster parents because they were doing well there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">The petitioner applied to the Michigan Children’s Institute, seeking to adopt the children. The MCI superintendent denied her request, concluding that adoption by the foster parents was in the children’s best interests; the family court refused to overturn the MCI decision.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">“There is a strong preference that children who have been removed from their parent’s care be placed with relatives,” the appellate panel stated. “For example, under MCL 722.954a(2), when a child is removed from his or her home, the supervising agency </span><em style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">must</em><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;"> identify, locate, notify, and consult with relatives to determine placement with a fit and appropriate relative who is able to meet the child’s developmental, emotional, and physical needs. A supervising agency’s placement decision must be made in the child’s best interests, and, in making the decision, the supervising agency shall give special consideration and preference to a child’s relatives who are willing and fit to care for the child and are able to meet the child’s needs. MCL 722.954a(5).” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">The petitioner claimed that the trial court erred in comparing her to the children’s foster parents, using the “best interest of the child” factors set out in the Child Custody Act. The Court of Appeals agreed: “[T]he trial court erred in making this comparison. Notably, the present case does not present a dispute between parties who have a legal or substantive right to the custody of the minor children. Because a juvenile guardianship is intended to be a permanent and self-sustaining relationship, MCL 722.875b, it is similar to adoption. When a person seeks the adoption of a child, a trial court generally does not compare the prospective adoptive parent with alternate placements for the child.... Here, where appellant is the grandmother of the children and where appellant has an established and continuing relationship with the minor children, the trial court should have considered whether appellant was an appropriate juvenile guardian for the children without regard to the foster care parents.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">The “undisputed facts” in the record support appointing the petitioner as the children’s guardian, the Court of Appeals stated. The petitioner had no health problems, had raised five sons, was employed as a registered nurse, had become a licensed foster care provider, and bought a five-bedroom home in anticipation of becoming the children’s guardian, the panel noted. The petitioner was not married, but had relatives in Florida, and had visited the school that her grandchildren would attend. “In sum, appellant not only quickly fulfilled every DHS requirement, she went significantly above and beyond any legal requirements to ensure she would be well prepared to care for her grandchildren.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">Neither the prosecutor nor the children’s guardian ad litem disputed that the petitioner would be an appropriate guardian, the Court of Appeals observed. “Nonetheless, they inexplicably both requested that appellant’s guardianship petition be denied because the children had found stability with the foster care parents.” But, while the children had enjoyed a stable home with their foster parents, DHS had helped create that situation by failing to consider the grandmother as a placement, the Court of Appeals said. “This type of ‘bootstrapping’ is clearly an inappropriate basis upon which to decide this type of matter, i.e., to justify the ‘best interests’ of the children.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">DHS argued that the any issues about the guardianship were moot because the children had already been committed to MCI and so already had a guardian, but the Court of Appeals disagreed. “[W]e find nothing in [previous Court of Appeals decisions] that prevents this Court from revoking the commitment of a child to the MCI when it reverses an erroneously entered order from the trial court that led to the child’s commitment.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">The Court of Appeals declined to review MCI’s denial of the petitioner’s request to adopt, saying the issue was moot: “[S]ince the minor children are no longer wards of the MCI following this court’s decision, appellant need not procure the consent of the MCI superintendant [sic] to adopt the children.” Moreover, the petitioner had already stated that she would dismiss her adoption petition if her guardianship petition was granted, the appellate panel noted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">DHS appealed, noting in part that even the petitioner’s son did not recommend her as a placement and that the children’s mother supported them remaining with their foster parents, rather than moving out of state. DHS also disputed some of the petitioner’s claims about her involvement with the children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15px;">In an order dated October 2, 2013, the Supreme Court granted leave to appeal and also granted the Michigan Children’s Institute’s motion to intervene. The Court directed the parties to address “(1) whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that there is a preference for relatives under MCL 712A.19c(2) when a circuit court decides whether to create a juvenile guardianship after parental rights have been terminated; (2) if such a preference exists, whether the paternal grandmother was entitled to that preference where her son’s parental rights to the children had been terminated; (3) whether the Court of Appeals erred by not applying a clear error standard of review to the Muskegon Circuit Court Family Division’s determination of the children’s best interests pursuant to MCL 712A.19c; (4) whether the circuit court erred by using the best interests factors enumerated in MCL 722.23 of the Child Custody Act in deciding whether to grant the petition for a juvenile guardianship; and (5) whether the Court of Appeals erred by reversing the circuit court on the ground that it was improper to compare the foster parents with the proposed guardian, or erred on any other basis.”</span><br />
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<a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/">Bill Johnson, Superintendent of the infamous Michigan Children's Institute</a>, has filed an appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court because the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that the paternal grandmother of four children was granted guardianship as his guardianship was revoked.</div>
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Daniel Beaton, the Assistant Attorney General who always represents Bill Johnson, is a rather nice man but can lie his ass off in a courtroom. He is good. That is why <a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/2010/12/everyone-meet-bill-johnson.html">Bill Johnson always wins.</a> But this time is a different story.</div>
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The grandmother applied to for adoption and was denied but applied for legal guardianship and was approved upon appeal. Brilliant.</div>
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Bill Johnson went to the Court of Appeals and was thrown out.</div>
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Now, he goes to his buddy Maura Corrigan's (former Chief Justice of Michigan Supreme Court and current Director of Department of Human Services) old stomping grounds, the Michigan Supreme Court to cry the blues about the beginning of the end of his omnipotent reign.</div>
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Bill Johnson wants to cry the blues that he was not party to the case and had his guardianship stripped.</div>
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Third, Bill Johnson completely ignored the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children. He overrode the decision of another state governor.</div>
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Bill Johnson is the legal guardian for more than 7,000 children. How can he possibly know what the best interests of the children are without third party knowledge? </div>
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Michigan Children's Institute is a 3 man circus that is an absolute waste of taxpayers dollars. It is about time judges of Michigan's bench and start making decisions. Let the people who actually care for kids be the guardians and tell Bill to go far away.</div>
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Bill Johnson is one of the last paleo-conservatives of chattel law. I expect him to be denied his petition for leave to appeal.</div>
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Regarding <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In the Matter of Clarmont, Minors</i>; a respondent appealed as of right termination of her parental rights under MCL 712A.19b(3)(c)(i), (g), and (j). The Court of Appeals opinion is dated February 19, 2013. The lower court is the Wayne County Juvenile Division.</div>
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First, the respondent had an expected prison release date within a span of only five months. In establishing grounds for termination, the petitioner wholly relied upon the respondent’s criminal history and substance abuse (which occurred before the commencement of the child protection hearings); the fact that she was imprisoned; and also the difficulties she would face after her release date.</div>
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However, <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In re Mason </i>held that imprisonment with a possible release date in less than two years plus the respondent having a criminal history are not alone sufficient grounds for termination under MCL 712A.19b(3)(c)(i), (g), and (j) except under specific circumstances not implicated in this case. In <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mason</i>, the Court found significant factors like the respondent maintaining contact with his children through the exchange of cards through the mail; the respondent also engaged in prison services; and he lined up housing and employment for after his release from imprisonment.</div>
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In the instant case, the respondent was required to have a relative sponsor in the state to acquire an interstate compact and transfer of her probation to Michigan. Due to this, the respondent had not yet arranged housing that would enable her to care for her children. Furthermore, an unknown factor was whether respondent would be able to find post-release employment and housing.</div>
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Yet, similar to <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mason</i>, the respondent completed all available prison services including parenting classes. Moreover, the respondent sent monthly letters to her children. A corrections officer even testified that the respondent did not exhibit any serious behavioral issues in prison—and that she earned all available good time. Notably, the respondent had a nonviolent criminal history that was not directly related to her parenting ability as well. Only limited evidence was introduced by the petitioner pertaining to the respondent’s parenting ability prior to incarceration. Moreover, the caseworker admitted to not evaluating the respondent’s current parenting skills either.</div>
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The Court of Appeals found the termination premature under <i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mason</i>. The trial court clearly erred in finding statutory grounds for termination. Therefore, the case was reversed and remanded.</div>
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Also, the Court stated the children should be temporary wards of the court while reunification or termination efforts are ongoing with more information required concerning the respondent’s ability to provide proper care to her children in a reasonable time after her release from prison. Additionally, the Court noted that separation related to the imprisonment weakened the child/parent bond, and that the children would benefit from permanence. Therefore, the lower court did not clearly err in its best-interest determination.</div>
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With nearly one hundred years of combined experience, the attorneys of Kronzek and Cronkright, PLLC, aggressively protect the parental rights of clients all across the lower peninsula of Michigan, including Lansing, Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Port Huron, Flint, Detroit, Saginaw, Kalamazoo, and more.</div>
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The individual responsible for adoption fraud in Michigan is none other than the <a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/2010/12/everyone-meet-bill-johnson.html">Superintendent of the Michigan Children's Institute, Bill Johnson.</a></div>
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Michigan Children's Institute need to be dismantled. I am hoping someone will send me the complaint so I can post it. I sincerely hope Bill Johnson was named as a defendant.</div>
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What really has alluded me in logic of Children's Rights settlement with Michigan is there is no where to be found in any of the court proceedings, mention of MCI or Bill Johnson. Situations of children under state care are absolutely horrific and no one is really telling it like it is.</div>
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As an original source, I can attest that what is in this complaint is completely true, not having read it. Why, one may ask? Because I live with the irreparable harm every single day.</div>
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Even though the case highlights the lack of mental health assistance of these children, more needs to be done to expose and end the fraud schemes created to maximize revenue at the expense of all children of Bill Johnson.</div>
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If DHS falsified records for adoption, then you can bet your bottom dollar DHS lied about removals, placements, cost reimbursements and its federal audits.</div>
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<a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/01/maura-corrigan-is-brilliant-and-refined.html#axzz25udwFBqK">DHS Director Maura Corrigan is a brilliant and refined liar.</a></div>
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Child welfare offices in Ingham and Clinton counties are among several public and private agencies named in a lawsuit expected to be filed Thursday alleging social workers lied to adoptive parents of special needs children about their kids’ disabilities and denied them funding available for parents of disabled children.</div>
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<span class="pp"></span>Eight families with 17 adopted children and two biological children said Wednesday they are planning to sue the Department of Human Services, alleging deceit and violation of federal law going back 20 years. They are seeking more than $13 million in back Social Security assistance and other damages, said David Kallman, the Lansing attorney representing the families.<span class="aa"></span></div>
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“The parents in this case were assured that the children they were adopting were physically and mentally healthy,” Kallman said in a statement. “DHS workers knew and documented that this was not the case. As a result, these families were, and continue to be, irreparably harmed.”</div>
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Some of the parents specifically stated they would not be willing to adopt children with significant mental, emotional or physical disabilities, according to the complaint.</div>
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“DHS has already prevailed in the majority of cases referenced by this attorney at the administrative level, and Michigan courts on review have repeatedly ruled in DHS’ favor in most of these cases. Because DHS takes all issues of child safety seriously, the state Attorney General’s office — on behalf of DHS — met with Mr. Kallman regarding his allegations this past August. Subsequently, the Attorney General’s Office has requested information from Mr. Kallman to assist with this matter, thus far to no avail."</div>
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Kallman alleges adoption agencies and social workers in seven cases covered up or lied about the level of abuse and neglect the children endured before being removed from their birth parents. Kallman also accuses DHS of denying all eight families access to Social Security funds through an adoption assistance program called Title IV-E, designed to support families who adopt children with special needs.</div>
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“These families love their kids,” Kallman said. “They want to care for their kids. But one family, for example, is literally destitute. They’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for help and psychologists, things that state should have been paying for.”</div>
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Despite the conditions in the home, the workers left the children with their birth parents for another six months, according to the lawsuit, then falsified documents to cover up the children’s history of abuse and neglect before they were adopted.</div>
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The lawsuit alleges the abuse caused severe emotional and behavioral disorders in the children, including violence disorders, fetal alcohol syndrome and reactive attachment disorder — which is a rare but severe psychiatric illness often caused by abuse that limits a child’s ability to bond with others or to feel empathy. The children all displayed signs of sexual abuse. One of the children was deemed “legally incapacitated” as a teenager and will never be able to care for herself, according to the complaint.</div>
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(WXYZ) - A grandma has been fighting the state to get her grandkids out of foster care for years. A great aunt has been trying to do the same for her niece. But both have been met with strong resistance—and it may be a matter of money.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The state pays private agencies to handle most foster care adoptions. By law, they are supposed to make placing foster children with extended family members a priority. But 7 Action News has found some cases where relatives say the agencies may be putting profits ahead of policy – and this can cut kids off from family forever. </span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When Lori Scribner found out her grandchildren were put in foster care after the state declared their parents unfit, she came forward to claim them. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I have been telling them I want them all along,” says Scribner. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">But she also was told that she needed a bigger home for her four grandkids. So she bought a five-bedroom ranch with a pool. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“That’s one of the things they love most is swimming,” says Scribner. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Then she was told she had to earn more money. The registered nurse came out of semi-retirement and went back to work full-time.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“So I could support the kids. I understood that,” Scribner says. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Scribner also says she has spent $50,000 in legal fees and other costs fighting for her grandkids. But she still faces the prospect of never seeing them again. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“There was nothing I could do that they would let them come,” she says. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Micky Gordon says she’s been fighting a system that seems set on breaking family bonds. The Department of Human Services (DHS), and the private agency it contracts, approved another couple to adopt her great niece who’s in foster care. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I feel like I have been living under a bully mentality," says Gordon, who is a social worker in Oklahoma, and is very familiar with foster care. She and her husband have foster-parented dozens of kids and adopted two of them. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“My credentials are impeccable,” insists Gordon, who says she has spent about $30,000 in legal fees fighting to adopt her niece and has no plans to stop. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I’m not going away. She’s coming home to her family,” says Gordon.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The law is on their side.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Both federal and state law require that the agency and the court give priority to relatives seeking placement of children in foster care,” says attorney Vivek Sankaran, who heads the Detroit Center for Family Advocacy and is an expert on child welfare law.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sankaran says, “Systemic road blocks are created, license, home-study requirements, criminal background checks take time. By the time these checks are done, the child is living somewhere else.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Scribner and Micky suspect this is about more than just bureaucratic red tape</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I think a lot of it has to do with these agencies earning money,” says Scribner.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DHS contracts with private agencies to handle foster care adoptions. But DHS wouldn’t talk to 7 Action News because Scribner’s and Gordon’s cases are being litigated.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The private agencies also wouldn’t talk about their cases, citing adoption confidentiality laws. But they did tell us that a child’s welfare is their top priority.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Scribner and Gordon aren’t buying it. They point to the current contract between DHS and the private agencies. The agencies get between $5,400 and $11,500 per adoption. The faster they get a child adopted, the more money the agency receives.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“We’re moving way too fast into adoption, close that deal, show me the money,” says Gordon.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gordon and Scribner have something in common that would mean less money for the agencies. Both live in other states. For out-of-state adoptions, private agencies in Michigan get $3,500 tops.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The whole system is set up to give the children away, and pay other people to take care of them when family is right there,” says Scribner.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In fact, the state would have saved more than $330,000 had the private agencies placed the children in Scribner’s and Gordon’s cases with them.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The state gives foster and adoptive parents $14.24 a day to care for a child until they turn 18-years-old. Scribner and Gordon say they told the agencies they didn’t want the subsidy, they just want their loved ones.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I told the adoption worker with the agency, look, we’re not asking for your money,” says Gordon.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">A recent study put together by a former county DHS director shows that it costs more for the state to pay private agencies to manage foster care than to have the state do it.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The report shows that for a state case worker to manage 18 foster care cases, it costs about $174,590 a year. That’s compared to about $297,087 for a private agency worker to handle the same case load.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Meanwhile Scribner and Gordon are not giving up.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“There are days you just sit and cry because you don’t know what’s happening,” says Scribner. “You don’t know anything about the kids and the more that they stonewall you, the more you think something must be wrong.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In Scribner’s case, court records show the private agency had their recruited couple apply to adopt her grandkids—while, at the same time, they were telling Scriber that</span></div></div></div></div><div class="page" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="story last" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the children were not available for adoption.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“The only thing they will tell you is you can’t have them,” says Scribner.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DHS admitted in court records that Scribner is a “loving, caring, nurturing and suitable care-giver,” but that the kids should be adopted by the agencies recruited couple since the children had already bonded with them.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Attorney Sankaran says he has seen agencies drag out the placement process and then argue it’s in the best interest of the child to stay with the recruited family.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By the time these checks are done, the child is living somewhere else and then bonding and things of that nature are brought up as the reason to keep kids away from family,” says Sankaran.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bonding was the key reason in both Scribner’s and Gordon’s cases for not letting them have their loved ones.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Do you think the agency purposely delayed this process?” Catallo asked Gordon.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“It certainly does appear that way,” says Gordon </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To be clear, a judge has the final say, but rarely goes against a DHS recommendation. And children can be cut off from family forever. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“I want the kids to know that we fought and we tried everything to get them that we could,” Scribner says through tears. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After 7 Action News contacted DHS about Scribner’s and Gordon’s cases, Scribner got a letter.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It says DHS is now reconsidering their decision to deny Scribner adoption of her grandkids. The letter also says it is looking at new information and will issue a new decision in 30 days.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Gordon’s hearing to challenge DHS’s decision is still ongoing.</span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We’ll stay on these stories and tell you the outcome of both.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">It looks like we have another <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2010/04/national-child-abuse-propaganda-month.html#axzz1XH2sGoHD">child abuse propaganda campaign</a> going on over here!</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">That's right folks. Since it looks like there is going to be a significant influx of kiddies into the foster care system beginning <a href="http://teabagsandcoffeegrinds.blogspot.com/2011/09/michigan-governor-signs-48-month.html">October 1, 2011</a>, ole <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/01/maura-corrigan-is-brilliant-and-refined.html#axzz1XH2sGoHD">Maura </a>Corrigan has revved up the campaign to justify <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2010/07/michigan-medicaid-fraud-to-be-discussed.html#axzz1XH2sGoHD">Medicaid fraud in child welfare.</a></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://dockets.justia.com/docket/michigan/miedce/2:2007cv13232/222992/">Jim Novell</a> is giving out the awards to those who advocate for child welfare? Well, it is only proper to nominate me. Yes, that's right. <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/16331017/Michigan-Investigative-Findings-Report-of-Medicaid-Fraud-in-Child-Welfare-With-No-State-Response">Jim and I are dear friends, going all the way back to 2001.</a></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Since it is an obviously a minor oversight, I felt compelled to make this minor correction by pointing out that Jim forgot to include a category for community advocates, as commonly referred to by law.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">More than likely, Jim and <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/05/maura-corrigan-makes-fraudulent-public.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLOmc+%28Beverly+Tran%29&utm_content=Twitter#axzz1XH2sGoHD">Maura</a> did not include this category for there is only one person from the community who arduously advocates for child welfare. <a href="http://beverlytran.com/">Me</a>.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I encourage each and everyone on my fans to nominate me. It really does not matter which category you choose, just nominate me. Let them know that <a href="http://democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings/Testimony.aspx?TID=8208">Beverly Tran is on a mission</a>...</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/64187164/Michigan-Foster-Care-Review-Board-Child-Welfare-Awards" style="display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 12px; text-decoration: underline;" title="View Michigan Foster Care Review Board Child Welfare Awards on Scribd">Michigan Foster Care Review Board Child Welfare Awards</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.772727272727273" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_88003" scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/64187164/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-iculoxo4kh30swujg51" width="100%"></iframe></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">NOTE: Whenever it asks for address, always list my cyber address: http://beverlytran.com and you can take it from there.</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Feel free to include my email: tranbeverly@gmail.com and number: 313-312-5195</span></div></b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525219810435543913.post-60677261437104225582011-09-03T14:57:00.000-07:002011-09-03T19:39:53.664-07:00The Morbidity of Child Abuse Propaganda<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Wayne County Juvenile Court, the infamous Lincoln Hall of Justice, is changing its policies. Isn't that sweet. It is now saying "judge" must sign the orders for removal of a child.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I am quite sure Kelly Ramsey, Referee and Board Member of <a href="http://www.childshope.org/#!about-us">Child's Hope</a> over there at University of Michigan Dearborn, who was removed from the bench and put behind the desk in the capacity of head honcha, far away from the purview of the public, is pretty pissed right now as she was the lead person who encouraged rubber stamping of judges and even referees.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">What I find as a gross morbidity of <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2010/04/national-child-abuse-propaganda-month.html#axzz1WvZVb28j">child abuse propaganda</a> is the entire concept of judicial oversight. People have forgotten who was the top dog in Michigan of the courts. <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/01/maura-corrigan-is-brilliant-and-refined.html#axzz1VasDr5Sx">Maura Corrigan</a>. And where is Maura now? Girlfriend did a lateral shift right over to the <a href="http://www.michigan.gov/dhs/0,1607,7-124-5459_7097-174062--,00.html">Michigan Department of Human Services</a> to do <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/05/maura-corrigan-makes-fraudulent-public.html#ixzz1UHW2VCIu">damage control of the gross morbidity of child abuse propaganda which allows and encourages Medicaid fraud in child welfare</a>. Brilliant.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The grossest morbidity of all is found in the minds of the people who have not even considered what has happened to the children and original parents who have been victim to rubber stamping and generation of false reports to the courts. Considering the fact the it is only in Wayne County that the Attorney General prosecutes these cases, you would think they would know better than to allow rubber stamping to go on in the court. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Then, you know the Michigan Attorney General went on to fight these rubber stamps all the way up to the Supreme Court where <a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/2011/02/maura-corrigan-michigans-cash-cow.html">Maura "Cash Cow" Corrigan</a> presided over these cases. You really do not have to guess how she ruled because most of them never saw the light of day.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The results of rubber stamping are termination of parental rights and Medicaid fraud. The gross morbidity is that nothing will happen to anyone except <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/LK-Facts">the children.</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I encourage everyone to contact Referee Kelly Ramsey and thank her for her dedicated work in promoting the gross morbidity of child abuse propaganda.... and make sure you tell her <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2010/09/at-least-you-got-your-kids-back.html#axzz1WvZVb28j">beverlytran.com</a> sent you.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1830912354">Child's Hope</a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1830912354">The Child Abuse Prevention Council of Out Wayne County</a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1830912354">19000 Hubbard Drive. Suite 264. Dearborn MI. 48126. </a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1830912354">P: 313-583-6401 F: 313-583-6402</a></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">office@childshope.org</div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Kelly... I'm on a mission...</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Action News Investigators broke the story about how Wayne County Juvenile Court rubber stamps orders that allow the state to take kids from parents. Now, the court is changing the policy so that a judge must sign the order before a child is taken away. The change came just one day after the highly-publicized Maryanne Godboldo case in which a judge scofffed at the order used to remove her child. LK: http://legallykidnapped.blogspot.com/#ixzz1WvIcVoze</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">At any time, the Court will crush you using one of these "interpretive buttresses" snatched off the Magna Carta, to beat you down and make you and your children go back to the fields and pick tomatoes and lettuce. (Well, that is the goal once all the <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2010/08/jesus-was-achor-baby.html#axzz1NOk9P4i8">anchor babies </a>are cleaned out of the country to give these great jobs to hard working, <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/04/emergency-financial-manager-every.html#axzz1NOk9P4i8">cheaper laboring American children</a>.)</div><br />
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First the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) says, "Even though all the other laws say a State is a person, we don't think so when it comes to States allowing federal programs to be ripped off under the False Claims Act because it would be too embarrassing for the us because we allowed the States to do whatever they wanted when we give them money, and besides, the States never had to be held to fraud standards before in federal contracts and the Congress was never clear in its intent for the States to be considered as 'persons'."<br />
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How dare some average person dare think they have the entitlement right to challenge us! We are the great Supreme Court of the United States! Poor people have no rights and definitely no right to sue and get rich. <br />
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There was a lone dissent which believed States were intended by the Congress to be considered as "persons".<br />
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Then came another shaving of the qui tam when SCOTUS decided anything "administrative" fell under the "public disclosure bar" meaning any state or federal report, hearing, audit, or anything else as such are not allowed to be used by an original source.<br />
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But wait, SCOTUS, as well as those whose corporations make substantial killings, literally, bilking Medicaid in child welfare, decided that anything requested through a Freedom of Information of Act request falls under the "public disclosure bar".<br />
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Let's pretend this actually happened: <br />
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I walk into the residential institution where my child incarcerated after being ripped from his bed in the middle of the night for no reason beyond child protective services and the police going to the wrong address, is being tortured and, with a fake smile I politely ask for his IEP. They hand it to me and it states he is considered "ineligible" for special needs, institutionalization and does not need medication, yet he is locked up in solitary confinement, beaten, raped, tortured, drugged suffering multiple heart attacks, tardive dyskensia, attempted suicides, surviving from meals of dried bread and potatoes with no heat in the winter or air conditioning in the summer, with different dates of birth on the court reports submitted to the court because my child was under aged for the facility.<br />
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Then, I go the office of the clerk of the court and pull his child protective services case and find out they fabricated a story of a car crash that never took place and had a duplicate fake case as a juvenile delinquent and were not just double billing, but billing me as a juvenile delinquent, also.<br />
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So I go and file a FCA and the court says: "So sorry, those are public docs and therefore, the States can do whatever the fuck they want to do and there is nothing that will ever be done because we only cater to the rich."<br />
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Let's keep pretending this did not happen, either.<br />
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Being a whistleblower and reporting fraud is a right of free speech. Verifying it through FOIA requests makes an original source the subject matter expert. I dare anyone to challenge, publicly of course, my expertise in child welfare fraud, even SCOTUS.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525219810435543913.post-48943435276569969032011-05-04T22:41:00.000-07:002011-05-04T22:41:02.151-07:00Conyers Stops Child AbuseA Special Announcement to Bill Johnson and Maura Corrigan:<br />
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Here, I present to the public, Michigan's blatant lie on how it conducts business in child welfare. <br />
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Yes, it is true to say that this is proper information presented on the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.<br />
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Yes, it is true to say that there are no lies presented on the names and titles of administration.<br />
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Yes, it is true to say the final decision maker on the ICPC is not the compact administrator. It's <a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/2010/12/he-is-omnipotent.html">Mr. Omnipotent. Bill Johnson, the Superintendent of Michigan Children's Institute!</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/15418755/First-Amended-Petition-of-Quo-Warranto" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto; text-decoration: underline;" title="View First Amended Petition of Quo Warranto on Scribd">First Amended Petition of Quo Warranto</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" id="doc_54872" scrolling="no" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/15418755/content?start_page=1&view_mode=list&access_key=key-apv54mac4quwjwudmei" width="100%"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525219810435543913.post-12793348315082254362011-02-15T06:37:00.000-08:002011-02-15T06:38:02.373-08:00Conyers To Hear Adam Walsh Central Registry Reauthorization<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal bold 22px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/02/conyers-to-hear-adam-walsh-central.html" style="font: normal normal bold 22px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Conyers To Hear Adam Walsh Central Registry Reauthorization</span></a></h3><div class="post-header" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 506px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On February 15, 2011, in the </span></span><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/goog_321558142" style="color: #e15ba2; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Securit</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_02152011.html" style="color: #e15ba2; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">y</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, hearing will be held to address the </span></span><a href="http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1422" style="color: #e15ba2; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Reauthorization of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">in the 112th Congress, led by the </span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6525219810435543913&postID=1279334831508225436" id="AdBriteInlineAd_second" name="AdBriteInlineAd_second" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://files.adbrite.com/mb/images/green-double-underline-006600.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_top"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">second</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> ranking member,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><a href="http://conyers.house.gov/" style="color: #e15ba2; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">John Conyers, Jr.</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The timing is impeccable to address the issue of lack of due process in the placement and clearance of individual names from the Central Registry.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525219810435543913.post-42389068171100979792011-02-13T20:20:00.000-08:002011-02-13T20:24:43.438-08:00Maura Corrigan: Michigan's Cash Cow<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></div><div class="wackmsg wackmsgtype_c" from="0" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 2px;" time="1297654096617"><div id="0.16961857583373785_:sr" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-right: 1em; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Ricky Holland</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #4de128; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bill Johnson, Superintendent of Michigan Children's Institute</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> authorized the adoption of Ricky Holland's two younger siblings to the murders during the murder investigation.<br />
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Ricky Holland was placed in foster care by his mother because there was no help for her. He was never removed for abuse and neglect.</span></span></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Now, every time the Ricky's mother has another child to replace the one who was murdered by the State of Michigan, the State of Michigan comes and cuts the umbilical cord.</span></span></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I used to have in my possession some of the case transcripts where the foster murderer was testifying on the scheme to dope up Ricky Holland with the highest dosages of psychotropics in order to get more money.</span></span></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There are many reasons why this case is so dear to me, why I swore I would never let Ricky Holland's memory fade away, but I will only share one.</span></span></span></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: -10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3&Date=20110107&Category=POLITICS02&ArtNo=101070371&Ref=AR" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="211" src="http://cmsimg.detnews.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=C3&Date=20110107&Category=POLITICS02&ArtNo=101070371&Ref=AR" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Michigan's Cash Cow</span></span></span></span></td></tr>
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</span></b></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: -10px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">Michigan's Cash Cow had the audacity to run a statewide commercial paid with undisclosed funds in to the tune of $80,000 asking the people of Michigan to call the Supreme Court and thank her for "all she has done for foster care and adoption" in order for her colleagues to elect her as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. She was not elected.</span></span></b></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: -10px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="wackmsg_new_sender" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: -10px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It was at that moment I began my mission...</span></b></div></div></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">This is my comment on the recent audit of Michigan's federal child welfare services Title IV-E reviews. I thought it best to post it here just in case the moderator takes it down.</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corrigan proud of false claims</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The judicial branch has not supported DHS in the appeal, it actually participated in filing of federal false claims and has been doing so for years. The attorney general contemporaneously advise and advocates in these</span></span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/35906338/Statement-of-Beverly-Tran-to-the-U-S-House-of-Representative-Ways-and-Means-Committee-Subcommittee-on-Income-Security-and-Family-Support-Hearing-to" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">revenue-maximization fraud schemes.</span></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f4cccc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in the Office of Attorney General does absolutely nothing except expend great amounts of defending its pattern of covering up Medicaid and other forms of health care fraud and antitrust representing the</span> </span></span><a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Superintendent of Michigan Children’s Institute, Bill Johnson,</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">who represents the State of Michigan</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/14669969/Michigan-Quo-Warranto-Petition-" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">without appointment or election</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">with no oath of office on file with the Secretary of State, and possesses the power to overrule a decision of another state by denying ICPC interstate adoptions.</span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">It is quite difficult for the Attorney General to</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/14745313/Michigan-Peremptory-Mandamus-Petition" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">prosecute itself for filing false claims.</span></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The following string of excerpts from federal and Michigan audits and evaluations is a working example of Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare:</span></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Michigan staff, both at the Central Office and county level, did an excellent job of preparing for the review. Records were extremely well organized with necessary documentation of eligibility requirement readily located. The State provided a “reviewer friendly” environment for the review to take place. Of note was the willingness and untiring efforts made by the Program Office in leading this effort. DHS licensing and field staff, in partnership with personnel from the SCAO and the Wayne County Department of Children and Family Services, were most efficient in obtaining additional information or acting as resources during the onsite review. Additionally, DHS’ fiscal unit is recognized for the thorough and updated payment histories.</span></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i></i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><i></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><i><div style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Michigan staff actively and enthusiastically participated in reviewing the cases.</span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(That’s because they successfully covered up the Medicaid Fraud.)</span></b></div></i></span><br />
<div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Exemplary is the collaborative relationship between DHS and the State Court. This was evident not only in the presence of either the current or former Chief Justices of the Supreme Court at the entrance or exit conference, but also in the excellent quality of court orders observed during the review. In particular, the involvement of SCAO is noted for conveying title IV-E requirements to the court, instituting revisions to court orders and garnering greater consistency in the use of those revisions among the county courts. The ongoing collaboration between DHS and SCAO is a strong mechanism to foster an understanding of the need for and timely occurrence of appropriate and meaningful judicial determinations for children within both the child welfare and legal communities.”</span></span></i></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/cwmonitoring/final/secondary/mi.htm" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Michigan Title IV-E Foster Care, Secondary Eligibility Review, April 1, 2006 through September 30, 2006, Conducted the week of March 26 through 29, 2007</span></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">“The state averted the loss of nearly $40 million in child welfare funding, thanks in part to the work of judicial branch staff.”</span></span></i></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/22880619/Annual-Report-of-the-Michigan-Supreme-Court-2007" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Clifford W. Taylor, Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice, Annual Report 2007</span></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">“If DHS did not improve, it faced a possible penalty of $22 million”…. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conducted the second eligibility review of DHS’s case files for foster care maintenance payments issued between April 1, 2006 and September 30, 2006. Prior to the review, DHS conducted an extensive case file review to identify cases that did not meet Foster care: Title IV-E Program eligibility requirements. For cases that DHS determined did not meet the Foster Care: Title IV-E Program eligibility requirements, DHS </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">changed the funding source on the cases</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"> to a funding source other than Foster Care: Title IV-E Program before April 1, 2006… As a result, those cases were not in the population reviewed during the federal review…The federal review concluded that DHS was in substantial compliance with federal eligibility requirements for the period April 1, 2006 through September 30, 2006.</span></span></i></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i></i></span></span><br />
<div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">We issued a qualified opinion on the Foster Care: Title IV-E Program. Our conclusion is different from the federal review because our sample included cases from the entire audit period.</span></span></i></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B90g6I52hF2WOThlMDNiNjYtNjE5Yy00ODExLTlmNGEtYzg2NTRmMmU4ZDI3&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Michigan Auditor General, 2007</span></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">During the (Michigan) onsite review, (federal) reviewers determined that criminal background checks were in evidence for all foster home files that were examined. In instances where children were placed in child caring institutions, reviewers determined that law enforcement checks had been done on administrators. Particularly noteworthy is Michigan’s practice of screening all licensed foster homes against its child abuse register on a weekly basis.</span></span></i></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><a href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/cwmonitoring/final/secondary/mi.htm" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Michigan Title IV-E Foster Care, Secondary Eligibility Review, April 1, 2006 through September 30, 2006, Conducted the week of March 26 through 29, 2007</span></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">DHS had not developed a formal policy that defined when and for what service types criminal background checks and educational qualifications should be required as a part of a human service contract (includes foster care).</span></span></i></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B90g6I52hF2WOThlMDNiNjYtNjE5Yy00ODExLTlmNGEtYzg2NTRmMmU4ZDI3&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Michigan Office of the Auditor General, Performance Audit of Human Service Contracting, Department of Human Services, April 2008, Report No.: 431-0110-05</span></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><a href="http://healthcarefraudenforcement.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Health care fraud is health care fraud.</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Pettibone got punked by Corrigan, the same way Madoff pulled the wool over the eyes of the FCC for decades, but you have to give Maura credit, when it comes to cover ups of federal false claims and racketeering in the child welfare system, the gal is damn good.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFg0iThOoKSzxwceMhXqiAImABj-Jxr8-ef2KYC-V-Bc2kVg0tQBfgThV6YHQEIOH9WqsjwAxoM_E8emms-pEQeD6WqVNKtRh64UFyAfxn-ORlyLc5hTGkaTHDwChyHpy_mbPec3pSquP1/s1600/liar+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFg0iThOoKSzxwceMhXqiAImABj-Jxr8-ef2KYC-V-Bc2kVg0tQBfgThV6YHQEIOH9WqsjwAxoM_E8emms-pEQeD6WqVNKtRh64UFyAfxn-ORlyLc5hTGkaTHDwChyHpy_mbPec3pSquP1/s320/liar+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; text-transform: none;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">"Qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur!"</span></span></span></i></b></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0066cc; text-decoration: none;">Beverly Tran</a><br />
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<h2 style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 30px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://michiganlawyerblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/25/dhs-prevails-in-federal-audit-appeal/" rel="bookmark" style="text-decoration: none;" title="Permanent Link: DHS prevails in federal audit appeal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">DHS prevails in federal audit appeal</span></a></h2><div class="entry" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.4em; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">News about former Justice Maura Corrigan, getting busy in her new role as Department of Human Services director:</span><br />
<blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 5px; color: #777777; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 30px; margin-top: 15px; padding-left: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Michigan Department of Human Services Director Maura Corrigan today announced that the DHS prevailed in a federal appeal and, as a result, passed a 2010 audit of its performance of the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">federal IV-E program in Michigan. Title IV-E of the federal Social Security Act covers federal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">funding for Michigan’s foster care and adoption assistance programs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">In June 2010, the DHS underwent a federal review of the state’s program operation. The</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">weeklong review of 80 foster care cases determined whether DHS had correctly determined</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">eligibility for children under its care and custody. The state was allowed to have a 5 percent error</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">rate, or four cases.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">notified Michigan last August that the state did not pass the review because it identified six error</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">cases. Two of the error cases resulted in a total disallowance of $67,264 in federal funds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The Michigan attorney general, on behalf of DHS, appealed this finding to the federal Department</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Appeals Board in November 2010. The federal board issued a decision Jan. 14 finding for the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">DHS. It reversed the disallowance and ruled Michigan is operating the Title IV-E program in</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">accordance with federal regulations.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">“The Department of the Attorney General provided DHS with excellent legal representation in our</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">appeal of the federal review findings,” Corrigan said. “Moreover, the entire team for DHS and the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">State Court Administrators Office deserves our praise for their fine work in conducting the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">preparation for the review.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">The federal IV-E program provided about $224.2 million in funds for the Michigan foster care and</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">adoption programs during fiscal year 2009, the most recent year for which records are available.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Because of the decision, Michigan will not be required to conduct a subsequent federal onsite</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">review until 2013. The 2010 review was Michigan’s third of the IV-E program since 2004.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Chief Justice Robert P. Young, Jr. of the Michigan Supreme Court commended both Corrigan</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">and the attorney general for their advocacy on behalf of Michigan’s children and on the proper</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">operation of the Title IV-E federal program.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">“Former Justice Corrigan made the commitment to DHS several years ago that she would work to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">assure courts operated in compliance with federal Title IV-E program regulations,” said Young.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">“Her tireless commitment and advocacy resulted in outstanding news for Michigan with this</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">review. The Supreme Court will continue to work with former Justice Corrigan in her new role as</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">DHS director to continue the same high level of collaboration.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Young also praised SCAO’s Child Welfare Services Division for its work on the audit and appeal:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">“In particular, we should acknowledge CWS Management Analyst Jenifer Pettibone, who played</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">a leading role on this successful appeal,” Young said. “Pettibone’s work is a fine example of how</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">the judicial branch has supported DHS, not only in this appeal process, but also in child welfare</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">work in general.”</span><br />
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</div></blockquote></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525219810435543913.post-36996201107911544522011-01-25T10:00:00.000-08:002011-01-25T10:03:15.848-08:00Maura Corrigan's Wonderful Things For The People Of Michigan<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal bold 22px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2011/01/maura-corrigans-wonderful-things-for.html">Maura Corrigan's Wonderful Things For The People Of Michigan</a></span></h3><div class="post-header" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 506px;"><a href="http://www.ioscorepublicans.org/Corrigan05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.ioscorepublicans.org/Corrigan05.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.199219) 0px 0px 0px; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-color: transparent; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: transparent; border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: transparent; border-top-left-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; position: relative;" width="226" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Michigan Supreme Court Justice </span></span><a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2009/11/justice-tartuffe-and-michigan-farce.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Maura Corrigan</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is to become the new Director of the state's Department of Human Services.<br />
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Let's take a look back at all the "wonderful" things she has done for Michigan's Foster </span> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6525219810435543913&postID=3699620110791154452" id="AdBriteInlineAd_care" name="AdBriteInlineAd_care" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://files.adbrite.com/mb/images/green-double-underline-006600.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_top"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Care</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">:</span></span><br />
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<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/14670079/Michigan-Childrens-Institute-Court-Rules" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Legislate from the bench</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/22880619/Annual-Report-of-the-Michigan-Supreme-Court-2007" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Participate in the generation of false information to HHS Region V Review</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/21161826/Michigan-Child-Welfare-Task-Force-2009" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Codify poverty as a crime</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/18049373/Michigan-Audit-of-Department-of-Human-Services-2004" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Facilitate the construction of multi-billion revenue-maximization fraud schemes</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/14669969/Michigan-Quo-Warranto-Petition-" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Publicly advocate for a party while the matter was pending in her court</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/21173493/Michigan-Parent-Representation-Report" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Deny due process to individual (parents) family members</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2010/09/michigans-logic-is-flawed-by-89-million.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ignore mandatory referrals of violations of law to the attorney general</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/39208198/Michigan-Child-Fatality-Reviews" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Promote lack of oversight to allow children to die in foster care</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/21341392/2008-Settlement-Agreement-between-Michigan-and-Children-s-Rights" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Allow Michigan to go to federal court for allowing children to be abused in foster care</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://michiganchildrensinstitute.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cover up the largest fraud scheme in the nation</span></a></span></li>
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All in all, despite her real background in child welfare, I believe she is an excellent choice for the position. Guilt should do "wonderful" things for Michigan's people.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/47115110/Michigan-Supreme-Court-Justice-Maura-Corrigan-Steps-Down" style="color: #e9c555; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 12px; text-decoration: underline;" title="View Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan Steps Down on Scribd">Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan Steps Down</a><object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" height="600" id="doc_617142123307714" name="doc_617142123307714" style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"></object><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Welcome to Michigan's hell. I look forward to your creative ways of ignoring me.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525219810435543913.post-64092536865939119842010-12-30T23:03:00.000-08:002010-12-30T23:41:31.796-08:00Michigan Reinstatement of Parental Rights Bill<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal bold 22px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2010/12/michigan-reinstatement-of-parental.html">Michigan Reinstatement of Parental Rights Bill</a></span></h3><div class="post-header" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 506px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/489523/489523,1261264578,20/stock-vector-mother-and-child-care-vector-43132447.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/489523/489523,1261264578,20/stock-vector-mother-and-child-care-vector-43132447.jpg" width="306" /></a></div><a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-HB-4735" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">This is the first ever in the nation for a state to introduce legislation to reinstate parental rights.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
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</span><a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2007-HB-4735" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">This is historical.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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Even though the bill is </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">sine die</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">, it was read twice and referred to Committee. It is being fast-tracked. Please take notice that there is no Social Welfare Commission and its powers were transfered to, well I assume you can say, were absorbed with the Director, I guess.<br />
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Perhaps, the state will resurrect the Social Welfare Commission, a citizen panel of oversight of Michigan Children's Institute...after Governor Snyder does not allow Bill Johnson, the Superintendent to come back to the administration.<br />
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Thank you Senator Scott for making history for Michigan, and the rest of the world.<br />
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Senate Bill No. 1586, entitled<br />
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A bill to amend 1935 PA 220, entitled “An act to provide family home care for children </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6525219810435543913&postID=6409253686593911984" id="AdBriteInlineAd_committed" name="AdBriteInlineAd_committed" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://files.adbrite.com/mb/images/green-double-underline-006600.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 100%; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: -2px; padding-bottom: 2px; text-decoration: none;" target="_top"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">committed</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> to the care of the state, to create the Michigan children’s institute under the control of the Michigan social welfare commission, to prescribe the powers and duties thereof, and to provide penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act,” by amending sections 7 and 9 (MCL 400.207 and 400.209), section 7 as amended by 1998 PA 525 and section 9 as amended by 2004 PA 470.<br />
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The bill was read a first and second time by title and referred to the Committee on Families and Human Services.<br />
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Senator Scott introduced.<br />
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<div class="Section1" style="page: Section1;"><h1 align="center" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid; position: relative; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 32pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">SENATE </span></span><span style="font-size: 32pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">BILL</span></span><span style="font-size: 32pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> No. 1586</span></span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.2in; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">November 30, 2010</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">, Introduced by Senator SCOTT and referred to the Committee on Families and Human Services.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> A bill to amend 1935 PA 220, entitled</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">"An act to provide family home care for children committed to the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">care of the state, to create the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Michigan</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> children's institute </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">under the control of the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Michigan</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> social welfare commission, to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">prescribe the powers and duties thereof, and to provide penalties</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">for violations of certain provisions of this act,"</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">by amending sections 7 and 9 (</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">MCL</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> 400.207 and 400.209), section 7 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">as amended by 1998 PA 525 and section 9 as amended by 2004 PA 470.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Sec. 7. (1) The department shall promulgate necessary rules </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">for the maintenance, health, instruction, and training of the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">children under the control of the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Michigan</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> children's institute, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">for placing them in homes, and for their supervision while they </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">remain public wards. The liability of a county for the cost of a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">child's care shall be determined under the youth rehabilitation </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">services act, 1974 PA 150, </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">MCL</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> 803.301 to 803.309.</span></span></div></div><div class="Section2" style="page: Section2;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> (2) The superintendent is the authorized agent of the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">department to implement this act.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> (3) The superintendent or the department may receive any </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">donation, grant, or personal property for the benefit of the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">children of the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Michigan</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> children's institute. Upon receiving a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">donation, grant, or personal property, the superintendent or the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">department shall remit it within 30 days to the state treasury to </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">be credited to the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Michigan</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> children's institute trust fund, which </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">is created in the state treasury. The state treasurer may keep as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">much of the fund as the treasurer considers advisable invested in </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">United States</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> government bonds, notes, bills, certificates, or </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">other obligations, and shall credit the earnings on the investments </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">to the fund.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> (4) The department may expend necessary amounts for the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">purposes of the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Michigan</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> children's institute for the care and</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">education of the children during minority or until released as </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">provided in this act. When a part of the trust fund is required by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">the department for these purposes, the superintendent shall obtain </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">those funds by requisition.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> (5) The department may utilize facilities existing in a county </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">in caring for children and may accept the services of a voluntary </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">organization for the benefit of the children, subject to rules </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">promulgated by the department. The superintendent shall enforce </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">these rules on behalf of the department.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> (6) An agreement entered into with a person for the care of a </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">child who is a ward of the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Michigan</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> children's institute shall </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">provide that the department may cancel the agreement if, in the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">department's opinion, the interest of the child requires it. If a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">parent or relative within the third degree of consanguinity or</span></div></div><div class="Section3" style="page: Section3;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">affinity of a child who is a ward of the institute establishes a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">suitable home and is capable and willing to support the child, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">department may restore the child to his or her parent or relative. </span><s><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The institute may assist the parent or relative with the support of </span></span></s><s><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">the child if the aid is less than the cost of care the institute </span></span></s><s><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">would otherwise provide.</span></span></s></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> (7) The department may place and maintain a child under the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">control of the institute in a licensed boarding home for children. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">The expense of supervision and transportation of the child to the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">home shall be paid out of money appropriated to the institute, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">subject to partial reimbursement by the county liable as provided </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">in this section. The superintendent shall cause an investigation of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">the condition and suitability of each boarding home to be made and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">a report to be made and kept on file at the superintendent's </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">office. The report shall have the superintendent's approval before </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">a child of the institute may be placed in the licensed boarding </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">home.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> Sec. 9. (1) The superintendent of the institute is authorized </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">to consent to the </span></span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">REINSTATEMENT OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">adoption, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">marriage, or emancipation of any child who may have been committed </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">to the institute, according to the laws for the </span></span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">REINSTATEMENT OF </span></span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">PARENTAL RIGHTS, </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">adoption, marriage, or emancipation of minors. On </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">such </span></span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">REINSTATEMENT OF PARENTAL RIGHTS, </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">adoption, marriage, or</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">emancipation, the child </span><s><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">so adopted, married, or emancipated </span></s><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">shall </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">cease to be a ward of the state.</span></div></div><div class="Section4" style="page: Section4;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> (2) On </span><s><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">the effective date of the amendatory act that added </span></s></span><s><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">this subsection, the family independence agency </span></span></s><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">DECEMBER 28, 2004</span></span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">,</span></span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">THE DEPARTMENT </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">shall discontinue the </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Michigan</span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> children's institute</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;">preliminary consent denial review process.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><div class="Section1" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; page: Section1;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><h1 align="center" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt; margin-bottom: 3pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 32pt;">SENATE </span><span style="font-size: 32pt;">BILL</span><span style="font-size: 32pt;"> No. 1587</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0.2in; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.2in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">November 30, 2010</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal;">, Introduced by Senator SCOTT and referred to the Committee on Families and Human Services.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> A bill to amend 1939 PA 288, entitled</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Probate code of 1939," </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">by amending sections 19c and 20 of chapter XIIA (</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">MCL</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 712A.19c and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">712A.20), section 19c as amended by 2008 PA 203, and by adding </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">section 21a to chapter XIIA.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">CHAPTER XIIA</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Sec. 19c. (1) Except as provided in section 19(4) of this </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">chapter and subject to subsection (14), if a child remains in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">placement following the termination of parental rights to the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">child, the court shall conduct a review hearing not more than 91 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">days after the termination of parental rights and no later than</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">every 91 days after that hearing for the first year following </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">termination of parental rights to the child. If a child remains in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">a placement for more than 1 year following termination of parental</span></div></div><div class="Section2" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; page: Section2;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">rights to the child, a review hearing shall be held no later than</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">182 days from the immediately preceding review hearing before the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">end of the first year and no later than every 182 days from each</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">preceding review hearing thereafter until the case is dismissed. A</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">review hearing under this subsection shall not be canceled or</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">delayed beyond the number of days required in this subsection,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">regardless of whether any other matters are pending. Upon motion by</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">any party or in the court's discretion, a review hearing may be</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">accelerated to review any element of the case. The court shall</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">conduct the first permanency planning hearing within 12 months from</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the date that the child was originally removed from the home.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Subsequent permanency planning hearings shall be held within 12</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">months of the preceding permanency planning hearing. If proper</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">notice for a permanency planning hearing is provided, a permanency</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">planning hearing may be combined with a review hearing held under</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">section 19(2) to (4) of this chapter. A permanency planning hearing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">under this section shall not be canceled or delayed beyond the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">number of months required in this subsection, regardless of whether</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">any other matters are pending. At a hearing under this section, the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">court shall review all of the following:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (a) The appropriateness of the permanency planning goal for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the child.</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> THE COURT </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">MAY</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> ORDER THE AGENCY TO INVESTIGATE THE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">APPROPRIATENESS OF REINSTATEMENT OF PARENTAL RIGHTS UNDER SECTION</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">21A OF THIS CHAPTER.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (b) The appropriateness of the child's placement.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" /></span></span><div class="Section3" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; page: Section3;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (c) The reasonable efforts being made to place the child for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">adoption or in other permanent placement in a timely manner.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (2) Subject to subsection (3), if the court determines that it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">is in the child's best interests, the court may appoint a guardian</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">for the child.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (3) The court shall not appoint a guardian for the child</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">without the written consent of the MCI superintendent. The MCI</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">superintendent shall consult with the child's lawyer guardian ad</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">litem when considering whether to grant written consent.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (4) If a person believes that the decision to withhold the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">consent required in subsection (3) is arbitrary or capricious, the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">person may file a motion with the court. A motion under this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">subsection shall contain information regarding both of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">following:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (a) The specific steps taken by the person to obtain the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">consent required and the results, if any.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (b) The specific reasons why the person believes that the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">decision to withhold consent was arbitrary or capricious.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (5) If a motion is filed under subsection (4), the court shall</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">set a hearing date and provide notice to the MCI superintendent,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the foster parents, the prospective guardian, the child, and the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">child's lawyer guardian ad litem.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (6) Subject to subsection (8), if a hearing is held under</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">subsection (5) and the court finds by clear and convincing evidence</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">that the decision to withhold consent was arbitrary or capricious,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the court may approve the guardianship without the consent of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">MCI superintendent.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" /></span></span><div class="Section4" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; page: Section4;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (7) A guardian appointed under this section has all of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">powers and duties set forth under section 15 of the estates and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">protected individuals code, 1998 PA 386, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">MCL</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 700.5215.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (8) If a child is placed in a guardian's or a proposed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">guardian's home under subsection (2) or (6), the court shall order</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the department of human services to perform an investigation and</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">file a written report of the investigation for a review under</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">subsection (10) and the court shall order the department of human</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">services to do all of the following:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (a) Perform a criminal record check within 7 days.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (b) Perform a central registry clearance within 7 days.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (c) Perform a home study and file a copy of the home study</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">with the court within 30 days unless a home study has been</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">performed within the immediately preceding 365 days, under section</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">13a(9) of this chapter. If a home study has been performed within</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the immediately preceding 365 days, a copy of that home study shall</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">be submitted to the court.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (9) The court's jurisdiction over a juvenile under section</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">2(b) of this chapter and the jurisdiction of the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Michigan</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">children's institute under section 3 of 1935 PA 220, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">MCL</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 400.203,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">shall be terminated after the court appoints a guardian under this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">section and conducts a review hearing under section 19 of this</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">chapter, unless the juvenile is released sooner by the court.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (10) The court's jurisdiction over a guardianship created</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">under this section shall continue until released by court order.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The court shall review a guardianship created under this section</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">annually and may conduct additional reviews as the court considers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" /></span></span><div class="Section5" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; page: Section5;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">necessary. The court may order the department or a court employee</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to conduct an investigation and file a written report of the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">investigation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (11) The court may, on its own motion or upon petition from</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the department of human services or the child's lawyer guardian ad</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">litem, hold a hearing to determine whether a guardianship appointed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">under this section shall be revoked.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (12) A guardian may petition the court for permission to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">terminate the guardianship. A petition may include a request for</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">appointment of a successor guardian.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (13) After notice and hearing on a petition for revocation or</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">permission to terminate the guardianship, if the court finds by a</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">preponderance of evidence that continuation of the guardianship is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">not in the child's best interests, the court shall revoke or</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">terminate the guardianship and appoint a successor guardian or</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">commit the child to the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Michigan</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> children's institute under section</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">3 of 1935 PA 220, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">MCL</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 400.203.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (14) This section applies only to a child's case in which</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">parental rights to the child were either terminated as the result</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of a proceeding under section 2(b) of this chapter or a similar law</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of another state or terminated voluntarily following the initiation</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of a proceeding under section 2(b) of this chapter or a similar law</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of another state. This section applies as long as the child is</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">subject to the jurisdiction, control, or supervision of the court</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">or of the </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Michigan</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> children's institute or other agency.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Sec. 20. The court in all cases involving custody shall state</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">in the order for disposition or any supplemental order of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" /></span></span><div class="Section6" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; page: Section6;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">disposition whether the child is placed in the temporary or</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">permanent custody of the court. If the child is placed in the</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">temporary custody of the court, no supplemental order of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">disposition providing permanent custody, or containing any other</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">order of disposition shall be made except at a hearing <s>pursuant</s></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">ACCORDING </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">to issuance of summons or notice as provided in sections</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">12 and 13 of this chapter or at a rehearing provided by section 19</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">of this chapter. If the child is placed in the permanent custody of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the court, all parental rights are terminated, though <s>such </s></span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">THE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">rights may be reinstated by a supplemental order of disposition </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">after rehearing <s>pursuant to </s></span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">UNDER </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">section 21</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> OF THIS CHAPTER OR BY </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-transform: uppercase;">AN ORDER REINSTATING PARENTAL RIGHTS ACCORDING TO SECTION 21A OF </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">THIS CHAPTER</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">SEC</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">. 21A. (1) IF THE COURT </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">HAS</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> DETERMINED THAT ADOPTION IS NO</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">LONGER THE JUVENILE'S PERMANENCY GOAL,</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> IF AT LEAST 3 YEARS HAVE </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-transform: uppercase;">PASSED FROM THE DATE THE COURT TERMINATED PARENTAL RIGHTS, THE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AGENCY OR THE JUVENILE </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">MAY</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">FILE</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> A PETITION REQUESTING REINSTATEMENT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">OF PARENTAL RIGHTS. THE JUVENILE'S LAWYER-GUARDIAN AD LITEM OR AN</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">ATTORNEY FOR THE CHILD APPOINTED UNDER SECTION 17D(2) OF THIS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">CHAPTER SHALL ASSIST THE JUVENILE TO </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">FILE</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> A PETITION UNDER THIS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">SECTION. THE COURT </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">MAY</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> ORDER PARENTING TIME ACCORDING TO SECTION</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">13A OF THIS CHAPTER PENDING A HEARING ON THE PETITION.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (2) THE COURT SHALL NOT REINSTATE PARENTAL RIGHTS TO A FORMER</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">PARENT OF A JUVENILE WHO </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">HAS</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> BEEN COMMITTED TO THE MCI WITHOUT THE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">MCI SUPERINTENDENT'S WRITTEN CONSENT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (3) IF IT APPEARS FROM THE PETITION THAT THE JUVENILE'S FORMER</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">PARENT IS </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">FIT</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> TO HAVE PARENTAL RIGHTS REINSTATED </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> THE BEST</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" /></span></b></span><div class="Section7" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; page: Section7;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">INTEREST OF THE JUVENILE </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">MAY</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> BE PROMOTED BY REINSTATEMENT OF</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">PARENTAL RIGHTS, THE COURT SHALL HOLD A HEARING. THE COURT SHALL</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">CAUSE WRITTEN NOTICE OF THE HEARING THAT DESCRIBES THE HEARING'S</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">PURPOSE</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> CONTAINS THE INFORMATION DESCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (5) TO</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">BE SERVED UPON THE </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">ALL</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> OF THE FOLLOWING:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (A) THE AGENCY.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (B) THE MCI SUPERINTENDENT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (C) THE JUVENILE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (D) THE JUVENILE'S LAWYER-GUARDIAN AD LITEM.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (E) THE JUVENILE'S FOSTER PARENT OR RELATIVE CAREGIVER.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (F) THE JUVENILE'S FORMER PARENT WHOSE PARENTAL RIGHTS </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">MAY</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> BE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">REINSTATED.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (G) IF TRIBAL AFFILIATION </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">HAS</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> BEEN DETERMINED, THE ELECTED</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">LEADER OF THE INDIAN TRIBE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (H) OTHER PERSONS AS THE COURT </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">MAY</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> DIRECT.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (4) THE COURT SHALL TERMINATE THE RIGHTS OF THE MCI </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">REINSTATE A PARENT'S PARENTAL RIGHTS IF THE COURT FINDS BY CLEAR</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> CONVINCING EVIDENCE THAT REINSTATEMENT OF PARENTAL RIGHTS IS IN</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">THE JUVENILE'S BEST INTEREST. THE COURT SHALL CONSIDER, BUT IS NOT</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">LIMITED TO CONSIDERING, </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">ALL</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> OF THE FOLLOWING:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (A) WHETHER THE PARENT IS </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">FIT</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">HAS</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> REMEDIED THE GROUNDS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">THAT SUPPORTED TERMINATION OF HIS OR HER PARENTAL RIGHTS, AS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">PROVIDED IN THE RECORD OF THE PRIOR TERMINATION PROCEEDINGS </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">PRIOR TERMINATION ORDER.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (B) THE </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AGE</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> MATURITY OF THE JUVENILE </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> THE ABILITY OF</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">THE JUVENILE TO EXPRESS HIS OR HER PREFERENCE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (C) WHETHER REINSTATEMENT OF PARENTAL RIGHTS WILL PRESENT A</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" /></span></b></span><div class="Section8" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; page: Section8;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">RISK TO THE JUVENILE'S HEALTH, WELFARE, OR SAFETY.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (D) OTHER MATERIAL CHANGES IN CIRCUMSTANCES, IF ANY, THAT </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">MAY</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">HAVE OCCURRED SINCE THE DATE OF THE ORDER TERMINATING PARENTAL</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">RIGHTS.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (5) THE JUVENILE'S FOSTER PARENT OR RELATIVE CAREGIVER </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">HAS</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> A</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">RIGHT TO BE HEARD AT A HEARING HELD UNDER THIS SECTION.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (6) AN ORDER ENTERED UNDER THIS SECTION REINSTATING PARENTAL</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">RIGHTS DOES NOT MODIFY, VACATE, OR SET ASIDE THE ORDER TERMINATING</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">PARENTAL RIGHTS. AN ORDER REINSTATING PARENTAL RIGHTS UNDER THIS</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">SECTION RESTORES </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">ALL</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> RIGHTS, POWERS, PRIVILEGES, IMMUNITIES,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">DUTIES, </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARENT REGARDING THE JUVENILE,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">INCLUDING THOSE RELATED TO CUSTODY, CONTROL, </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">AND</span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> SUPPORT OF THE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">JUVENILE.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> (7) THIS SECTION APPLIES TO ANY CHILD WHO IS UNDER THE</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">JURISDICTION OF THE COURT OR MCI AT THE TIME OF THE HEARING</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: bold; line-height: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: uppercase;">REGARDLESS OF THE DATE PARENTAL RIGHTS WERE TERMINATED.</span></div></div></span></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525219810435543913.post-50322288305225753852010-12-29T13:38:00.000-08:002010-12-29T13:38:49.158-08:00What's Missing Here?What's missing in this powerpoint on Michigan Children's Institute?<br />
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Why it's the Almighty Superintendent!<br />
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On slide 4 there is a tiny mention of the elusive Superintendent. Other than that, his mighty powers are a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/14669969/Michigan-Quo-Warranto-Petition-">mystery</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/45970191/Michigan-Children-s-Institute-Child-Abuse-and-Neglect-Conference-October-2010" style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px auto; text-decoration: underline;" title="View Michigan Children's Institute Child Abuse and Neglect Conference October 2010 on Scribd">Michigan Children's Institute Child Abuse and Neglect Conference October 2010</a> <object data="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf" height="600" id="doc_559897010597862" name="doc_559897010597862" style="outline: none;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <param name="FlashVars" value="document_id=45970191&access_key=key-2n90228sy2kjs1536twp&page=1&viewMode=list"> <embed id="doc_559897010597862" name="doc_559897010597862" src="http://d1.scribdassets.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=45970191&access_key=key-2n90228sy2kjs1536twp&page=1&viewMode=list" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="600" width="100%" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#ffffff"></embed> </object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6525219810435543913.post-72449046172619108622010-12-27T21:00:00.000-08:002010-12-27T21:01:01.875-08:00Into The Abyss<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDuY_15EqOrC-QKXzfzRC5TElp79wfeWmPhjtj4Z5NGd_FtbV4Ct_aclJdu6BKuk948jdtNuDRbmDBglWEdlGZI2ZF66shDiJqPJPCCrKvLce1hPG7ib02RJ9GrmcL9kl5bd-V-h4920/s400/at-my-feet-is-a-hole.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiDuY_15EqOrC-QKXzfzRC5TElp79wfeWmPhjtj4Z5NGd_FtbV4Ct_aclJdu6BKuk948jdtNuDRbmDBglWEdlGZI2ZF66shDiJqPJPCCrKvLce1hPG7ib02RJ9GrmcL9kl5bd-V-h4920/s320/at-my-feet-is-a-hole.gif" width="320" /></a></div>Throughout the years, as technology has grown and access to data has emerged as a bright moon to illuminate the dark and mysterious world of child welfare, the Michigan Children's Institute is slowly dumping all pieces of its existence into the abyss of the internet, being wiped clean from departmental organizational charts.<br />
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MCI is officially no longer on Michigan Department of Human Services Organizational Charts. It disappeared.<br />
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I wonder if this is due to those irritating <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2010/07/michigan-medicaid-fraud-to-be-discussed.html">State Auditor General Reports</a>, or those annoying <a href="http://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2010/09/michigans-logic-is-flawed-by-89-million.html">federal decisions</a>, or that nasty <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/21341392/2008-Settlement-Agreement-between-Michigan-and-Children-s-Rights">federal settlement agreement,</a> or perhaps it was just <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/14669969/Michigan-Quo-Warranto-Petition-">me</a>.<br />
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I wonder if it is finally going away.<br />
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For years, I have been battling with the father rights groups to understand that non-custodial parents are parents who have been determined by the court unfit to be granted the right to custody of the child.<br />
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Here we have a perfect example to show the child support issue advocates that child support is under the policy aegis of child welfare, being in this case, the Michigan Department of Human Services, and not the Friend of the Court.<br />
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The Friend of the Court collects, or rather enforces the orders of the court. The court, judicates the bidding of Michigan child protection policies.</span><br />
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How does Michigan protect its children? By double-dipping, of course!<br />
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Let's have some fun with the antics of the Supreme Court's ignorance of the foul administrative opertions in Michigan's child welfare.<br />
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First and foremost, the children were made wards of the court. That is just a fancy name for foster care. I do not have the details on the order, as it substantially affects the funding decisions of reimbursement, but, for conversational sake, let's say it is a Title IV-E placement with Targeted Case Management services.<br />
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Michigan has been known to order parents to pay for the time a child is in foster care. This has led to many termination of parental rights decisions. By this I mean a child may be placed in foster care for the parents failure to provide for the necessary needs of the child; they are poor. It could be homelessness or it could be the inability to access proper medical care. In any event, it is a catch-22. Your child enters foster care because you are poor, yet you are ordered to pay for the length of stay. If you do not pay for the time the child is in foster care, you fail to comply with the case plan and parent-agency agreement, generating documentation to support the call for TPR.<br />
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Ok, the State has been reimbursed under these two funding streams: (Title IV-E and Targeted Case Management). Does the State send back this money to the feds if the parent pays for the foster care stay?<br />
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Hell no. Wait, it gets better.<br />
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Then, as child support is ordered and to be intercepted, Title IV-D kicks in. Now, you have foster care administrative payments kicking in to refer to Friend of the Court to collect money from a person whom the State has decided has no legal ties to the child.<br />
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Absolutely brilliant scheme of double-dipping.<br />
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Michigan has ordered many parents whose rights have been terminated to pay child support. Even though the child is adopted out and the new adoptive parents or even foster parents who have the child in adoptive placement are receiving adoption assistance payments, child support operations are in full force.<br />
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Where does the child support money go once a child is adopted out from TPR?<br />
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Into the blackhole of Michigan's Medicaid fraud scheme. Remember, it's all about maximizing revenue for the State.</span><br />
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In a rare unanimous opinion, the court says a father or mother can be ordered to support a child financially even if he or she has no other role. The justices ruled in a case from Oakland County in which Lawrence Beck's parental rights were terminated in 2009.<br />
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A judge still required Beck to support two children under the terms of a divorce from his wife.<br />
The Supreme Court said Monday that Michigan law requires financial support unless a judge modifies or terminates the obligation.<br />
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Justice Alton Davis did not participate in the 6-0 decision because he reviewed the case when he was a member of the state appeals court.</span><br />
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