Whenever the Department of Health and Human Services has reason to believe that any person having the care or custody of a child placed out, and not legally adopted, is an improper person for such care or custody, or subjects such child to cruel treatment, or neglect, or immoral surroundings, it shall cause a complaint to be filed in the proper juvenile court.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 43-706
Abuse or neglect by custodian; filing of complaint
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Cornhusker Christian Children's Home, Inc. v. Department of Social Services (1987)
Most recently applied in Joshua M. v. State (May 2024)
Laws 1919, c. 190, tit
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