The supervisory period in most interstate placements is six months.
If the Texas caseworker supervising an interstate placement in Texas and the other state agency agree that the placement no longer needs to be supervised, the Texas caseworker must prepare a final supervisory report recommending a legal action that closes the child’s case and complete the interstate placement process.
The final actions that the court in the other state may take include, but are not limited to:
• dismissing the other state agency’s appointment as the child’s legal custodian;
• placing the child in the caregiver’s legal custody;
• consummating the child’s adoption, or dismissing the other state agency’s custodianship to allow a court in Texas to consummate the adoption;
• authorizing the child to be legally emancipated in Texas; or
• acknowledging that the child has reached majority age.
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