A permanency goal of adoption indicates that:
• CPS has removed the child from his or her home;
• family reunification is not appropriate;
• adoption is in the child’s best interest;
• CPS intends to pursue termination of parental rights to the child;
• a safe and permanent family living arrangement has been found or is being sought that is willing and able to:
• protect the child;
• assume long-term responsibility for the child’s care and upbringing; and
• adopt the child;
• CPS provides services to the child and the family where the child is placed until the case can be closed; and
• following the consummation of an adoption, the adoptive parents become the parents of the child for all purposes.
Texas Family Code §162.017
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