Post termination placement orders

(a) Within sixty (60) days after the entry of the final termination order or decree for both parents, the Court may convene a hearing to review the proposed placement plan of the agency responsible for placement of the child. The placement plan, and any amendment to it, shall be submitted to the Court and the parties ten (10) days prior to the hearing. The plan shall include the following: (1) a description of the agency’s progress toward arranging an adoptive placement for the child; (2) where adoptive parents have not already been selected, a schedule and description of steps to be taken to place the child for adoption; and (3) a description of any barriers preventing placement of the child for adoption and how they should be overcome. History. Amended Jan. 28, 2015, effective Apr. 20, 2015. Rule 221. Missing and out-of-state parents. Personal service of process shall be done in accordance with Civil Rule 4(d)(1) through (5) and 4(e) of this Court. In the event that personal service cannot be accomplished on the respondent or DSCYF files an affidavit alleging that personal service cannot be accomplished on the respondent in this state for the reasons set forth in the affidavit, DSCYF shall then cause to be published notice of the action informing the respondent they shall have twenty (20) days to file an answer, move or otherwise plead in the action. This notice shall be published on a legal notices website established by the Court or in a newspaper in the locality in which the respondent is or was believed to last be located. Failure to obtain service of process over one party by the time any hearing occurs shall not prevent the Court from proceeding to a hearing as to any other party over whom jurisdiction has been obtained. DSCYF shall make continuing, diligent efforts to locate and notify the parents who have not been personally served. History. Adopted Jan. 28, 2015, effective Apr. 20, 2015; amended Oct. 20, 2021, effective Jan. 1, 2022.