If DFPS has been named in a final court order as a child’s permanent managing conservator, the court must hold a permanency hearing to review DFPS’s PMC every six months until DFPS is no longer the permanent managing conservator (either because the child is adopted, leaves DFPS conservatorship for the managing conservatorship of another individual, or becomes an adult).

If all parental rights have been terminated, the first permanency hearing of DFPS’s PMC must take place no later than 90 days after the court appoints DFPS as the managing conservator. Subsequent reviews are held every six months thereafter, as they are in cases in which parental rights have not been terminated.

Texas Family Code §§263.501External Link, 263.5031External Link