This chapter applies to the following types of care by a relative caregiver of a child:

1. (1) Court-ordered out-of-home care placement. A relative caregiver applying for or receiving kinship care payments on behalf of a child that was placed in the relative caregiver’s home under a court order or a voluntary transition-to-independent-living agreement and is under the placement and care responsibility of a child welfare agency. A relative caregiver under this subsection shall also apply for or have applied for a license to operate a foster home under ch. DCF 56, unless the child was placed in the relative caregiver’s home by a court order of a tribal court.
2. (2) Voluntary. A relative caregiver applying for or receiving kinship care payments on behalf of a child residing with the relative caregiver for a child that was not placed in the relative caregiver’s home under a court order or a voluntary transition-to-independent-living agreement and is not under the placement and care responsibility of a child welfare agency. The child’s living arrangement with the relative caregiver may be informal or the relative caregiver may be the child’s guardian under s. 48.9795, Stats., or a tribal private guardianship order.
3. (3) Guardian appointed for child in need of protection or services. A relative caregiver that is applying for or receiving long-term kinship care payments and is a child’s guardian under s. 48.977, Stats., or a tribal court order that is substantially similar to an order under s. 48.977, Stats.

History

History: CR 19-159: cr. Register October 2020 No. 778, eff. 11-1-20; correction in (1) made under s. 35.17, Stats., and correction in (2) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats., Register October 2020 No. 778; CR 21-107: am. (2), (3) Register June 2022 No. 798, eff. 7-1-22; EmR2420; emerg. am., eff. 1-1-25; CR 25-009: am. Register August 2025 No. 836, eff. 9-1-25.