- A. PSD shall schedule a mandatory pre-adjudicatory meeting prior to the adjudicatory hearing.
- B. The adjudicatory hearing shall be held within 60 days after the date of service on the respondent.
- C. Prior to the dispositional hearing, PSD shall prepare a pre-dispositional study and report.
- D. The dispositional hearing may occur simultaneously with the adjudicatory hearing, but no later than 30 days after the conclusion of the adjudicatory hearing.
- E. Resource parents, pre-adoptive parents, relatives or fictive kin providing care to the child shall be given notice and an opportunity to be heard at the dispositional hearing.
[8.10.8.14 NMAC - N, 9/29/2015; A, 5/4/2021]