Vermont — Title 33 · Chapter 053 — Children in Need of Care or Supervision

• § 5301 — Taking into custody
• § 5302 — Request for emergency care order
• § 5303 — Procedure for runaway children
• § 5304 — Designated shelters for runaway children
• § 5305 — Emergency care order; conditional custody order
• § 5306 — Notice of emergency care order and temporary care hearing
• § 5307 — Temporary care hearing
• § 5308 — Temporary care order
• § 5309 — Filing of a petition
• § 5310 — Petition; contents
• § 5311 — Service of summons and petition; no request for temporary care order
• § 5312 — Failure to appear at preliminary hearing
• § 5313 — Timelines for pretrial and merits hearing
• § 5314 — Filing of initial case plan
• § 5315 — Merits adjudication
• § 5315a — Merits stipulation
• § 5316 — Disposition case plan
• § 5317 — Disposition hearing
• § 5318 — Disposition order
• § 5319 — Parent-child contact and contact with siblings and relatives
• § 5320 — Postdisposition review hearing
• § 5320a — Duration of conditional custody orders postdisposition
• § 5321 — Permanency hearing
• § 5322 — Placement of a child in a facility used for treatment of delinquent children