Statutes | Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation Comprehensive Code of Justice, Title 9 Chapter 5 ยง 508 | 2019
The youths authorized representative or the parent(s), legal guardian or custodian may petition the Court for return of an abused, neglected, abandoned or dependent youth to the parent(s), legal guardian or custodian. Such a petition shall not be filed until three (3) months after the disposition and only at six (6) month intervals thereafter. The petition shall be in writing, but need not be in any particular form. Grounds for return include a showing that the youth would not be in danger of being abused, neglected, abandoned or dependent upon return to the parent(s), legal guardian or custodian. Upon receipt of a petition for return of a youth, the Court shall order the appropriate social agency or Juvenile Services Department to undertake a social study. If after consideration of the petition and social study, the Court finds substantial evidence that the youth may safely be returned to the home of the parent(s), legal guardian or custodian, the Court shall order and hold a hearing on the matter, following the procedures set forth in Section 505.