Short title; intent of recodification
Known as the West Virginia Child Welfare Act
The act spans §§ 49–49 (270 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 239 W. Va. 382 - In re A.L.C.M. (2017)
Most recently applied in In Re I.M.K. (June 2018)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "West Virginia Child Welfare Act."
(b) The recodification of this chapter during the regular session of the Legislature in the year 2015 is intended to embrace in a revised, consolidated, and codified form and arrangement the laws of the State of West Virginia relating to child welfare at the time of that enactment.
Official source: West Virginia Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain West Virginia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.