2025 Session Last amended: 2012 session

§ 260C.507 — Admit-deny Hearing

Plain-Language Summary

This section sets deadlines for the admit-deny hearing on a permanency or termination of parental rights petition. The hearing must be held no later than 12 months from the child's placement in foster care or an order placing the child with a noncustodial or nonresident parent. If the petition was required to be immediately filed under section 260C.503, subdivision 2(a), the hearing must occur within ten days of filing. At the hearing the court determines whether there is a prima facie basis for finding the agency made reasonable efforts (or active efforts for an Indian child) toward reunification, or that such efforts are not required.

260C.507 ADMIT-DENY HEARING.

(a) An admit-deny hearing on the permanency or termination of parental rights petition shall be held not later than 12 months from the child’s placement in foster care or an order for the child to be in the care of a noncustodial or nonresident parent.

(b) An admit-deny hearing on the termination of parental rights or transfer of permanent legal and physical custody petition required to be immediately filed under section 260C.503, subdivision 2, paragraph (a), shall be within ten days of the filing of the petition.

(c) At the admit-deny hearing, the court shall determine whether there is a prima facie basis for finding that the agency made reasonable efforts, or in the case of an Indian child active efforts, for reunification as required or that reasonable efforts for reunification are not required under section 260.012 and proceed according to the Minnesota Rules of Juvenile Protection Procedure.

History:

2012 c 216 art 4 s 27

**NOTE: **A transfer of a power or responsibility in this chapter to the Department of Children, Youth, and Families is effective upon notice of the commissioner of children, youth, and families to the commissioners of administration, management and budget, and other relevant departments along with the secretary of the senate, the chief clerk of the house of representatives, and the chairs and ranking minority members of the relevant legislative committees and divisions. Laws 2024, chapter 80, article 8, section 72, Laws 2023, chapter 70, article 12, section 30.

History: History: 2012 c 216 art 4 s 27

Practical Notes

At an admit-deny hearing you respond to a petition asking the court to make a permanent placement decision or end your parental rights. The court does not decide the case at this hearing; it sets timing and checks whether there is an initial basis to find the agency made reasonable efforts (or active efforts in the case of an Indian child) to reunify your family, or that those efforts were not required. The hearing generally must be held within 12 months of the child entering foster care, and within ten days if the petition was one that had to be filed immediately.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes