Montana § 42-10-106 - Certification As Child With Special Needs
Full text of Montana Montana Code Annotated § 42-10-106 — Certification As Child With Special Needs, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 42-10-106. Certification As Child With Special Needs
Certification as child with special needs. (1) Whenever the conditions of 42-10-103 are found to exist and the foster parents seek to adopt the child, the child must be certified as a child with special needs. (2) In all other cases in which the conditions of 42-10-103 are found to exist and after reasonable efforts have been made and without subsidy no appropriate adoptive family has been found for a child, the department shall certify the child as a child with special needs. (3) If the child is the dependent of a licensed child-placing agency, that agency shall present to the department evidence of inability to place the child for adoption due to any of the conditions specified in 42-10-103 . The agency shall present evidence that reasonable efforts have been made to place the child without subsidy. Upon such a showing, the department shall certify the child as a child with special needs.
Source: official Montana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 42-10-106 ("Certification As Child With Special Needs") is part of the Montana Code Annotated, the codified statutory law of Montana. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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