Whether the caseworker participates in a court-ordered mediation or confers with the parties and their attorneys on the telephone, the resulting agreement may be binding on DFPS and may become an order of the court.
The court may only modify the resulting agreement in limited circumstances; therefore, any resulting agreement must:
• ensure the child’s safety;
• be in the child’s best interest;
• not create barriers to achieving the child’s permanency goal; and
• comply with the applicable requirements in 5571.1 Court-Ordered Mediation or 5571.2 Informal Dispute Resolution.
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