Committee advances foster-care bill setting higher home-qualification standards, prompting questions about kinship and income thresholds A committee advanced a PCS aimed at raising foster-home standards (income and recommendation letters) but members warned income thresholds could exclude kinship placements; the sponsor said the measure seeks to improve long-term outcomes for children and invited further drafting.

A new foster-care bill aims to raise household standards but raises questions about how income thresholds might impact kinship placements.

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Judge terminates parental rights in Kiana Johnson case, orders DFPS to study maternal grandmother for placement A High Plains Child Protection Court judge found by clear and convincing evidence that terminating parental rights for infant Kiana Johnson is in the child's best interest, naming the Department of Family and Protective Services permanent managing conservator and ordering a home study of the maternal grandmother. (No appeal deadline noted in the in

A Texas judge has made a crucial decision to terminate the parental rights of Truzell Moore and Marvin Price, prioritizing the welfare of infant Kiana Johnson amidst troubling circumstances.

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