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2016 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 984
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN NEED OF SERVICES Entire Chapter
    
    CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN NEED OF SERVICES Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 984
                CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN NEED OF SERVICES
            
                        984.01
                        
                    Purposes and intent; personnel standards and screening.
                    
                        984.02
                        
                    Legislative intent for the juvenile justice system.
                    
                        984.03
                        
                    Definitions.
                    
                        984.04
                        
                    Families in need of services and children in need of services; procedures and jurisdiction.
                    
                        984.06
                        
                    Oaths, records, and confidential information.
                    
                        984.07
                        
                    Appointed counsel; compensation.
                    
                        984.071
                        
                    Information packet.
                    
                        984.08
                        
                    Attorney’s fees.
                    
                        984.085
                        
                    Sheltering unmarried minors; aiding unmarried minor runaways; violations.
                    
                        984.086
                        
                    Children locked out of the home; interagency cooperation.
                    
                        984.09
                        
                    Punishment for contempt of court; alternative sanctions.
                    
                        984.10
                        
                    Intake.
                    
                        984.11
                        
                    Services to families in need of services.
                    
                        984.12
                        
                    Case staffing; services and treatment to a family in need of services.
                    
                        984.13
                        
                    Taking into custody a child alleged to be from a family in need of services or to be a child in need of services.
                    
                        984.14
                        
                    Shelter placement; hearing.
                    
                        984.15
                        
                    Petition for a child in need of services.
                    
                        984.151
                        
                    Truancy petition; prosecution; disposition.
                    
                        984.16
                        
                    Process and service.
                    
                        984.17
                        
                    Response to petition and representation of parties.
                    
                        984.18
                        
                    Referral of child-in-need-of-services cases to mediation.
                    
                        984.19
                        
                    Medical screening and treatment of child; examination of parent, guardian, or person requesting custody.
                    
                        984.20
                        
                    Hearings for child-in-need-of-services cases.
                    
                        984.21
                        
                    Orders of adjudication.
                    
                        984.22
                        
                    Powers of disposition.
                    
                        984.225
                        
                    Powers of disposition; placement in a staff-secure shelter.
                    
                        984.226
                        
                    Physically secure setting.
                    
                        984.23
                        
                    Court and witness fees.
                    
                        984.24
                        
            Appeal.