Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

(1) The purpose of this chapter is to:
(a) Provide for voluntary and involuntary severance of the parent and
child relationship and for substitution of parental care and supervision
by judicial process, thereby safeguarding the rights and interests of all
parties concerned and promoting their welfare and that of the state of
Idaho; and
(b) Provide permanency for children who are under the jurisdiction of the
court through the child protective act, chapter 16, title 16, Idaho Code,
where the court has found the existence of aggravated circumstances or
that reasonable efforts to return the child to his or her home have
failed.
(2) Implicit in this chapter is the philosophy that wherever possible
family life should be strengthened and preserved and that the issue of
severing the parent and child relationship is of such vital importance as to
require a judicial determination in place of attempts at severance by
contractual arrangements, express or implied, for the surrender and
relinquishment of children. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to
allow discrimination in favor of, or against, on the basis of disability.

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