13 CSR 40-34.060 Parental Support

PURPOSE: This rule establishes the requirement that the Division of Family Seruices 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 orpartially support.

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

   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.

   Auth: section 207.020, RSMo (19861. Original rule filed Aug. 6,1982, effective Nov. l&1982.