The court may also determine that efforts toward family reunification are not reasonable because:
• CPS cannot find the child’s parents despite due diligence;
• a court has terminated parental rights; or
• ongoing reunification efforts are no longer consistent with meeting the child’s needs to achieve permanency.
If family reunification is not an appropriate goal for the reasons discussed above, then the caseworker chooses between adoption and a transfer of conservatorship as the child’s primary permanency goal.
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