PURPOSE: This rule establishes the requirement that the Division of Family Services will explore parental capacity to support a child or children who must be placed in foster care and then recommend to the Juvenile Court that the parents be ordered to support or partially support. 13 CSR 40-34

1. (1) In order that children, who must be placed in foster care, receive the benefit of continuing parental financial support and to prevent unnecessary cost to the state, appropriate Division of Family Services staff shall—

   1. (A) Assess the capacity of the child’s parent(s) to contribute all or part of the child’s support while in care; and
   2. (B) Recommend to the Juvenile Court that the child’s parent(s) be ordered to contribute the appropriate level of support.

AUTHORITY: section 207.020, RSMo 1986.* Original rule filed Aug. 6, 1982, effective Nov. 11, 1982.

*Original authority: 207.020, RSMo 1945, amended 1961, 1965, 1977, 1981, 1982.