110 CMR 7.517 - Jurisdiction Under the Interstate Compact

(1) The sending agency shall have jurisdiction over the child sufficient to determine all matters relative to the custody, supervision, care, treatment and disposition of the child in the same manner as if the child had remained in the sending agency's state, until the child is adopted, reaches majority age, becomes self-supporting or is discharged from the placement in question with the concurrence of the appropriate authority in the receiving state.

(2) The child's legal residence shall be in the state of the sending agency until one of the events stated in the 110 CMR 7.517(1) occurs.

(3) The sending agency shall have jurisdiction sufficient to effect or cause the return of the child or his/her transfer to another location.

(4) The sending agency shall have the power to secure periodic reports from the receiving state concerning the course of the placement.

(5) Whenever parent(s) terminate their parental rights and surrender their child to a person or agency in the Commonwealth, such parents by virtue of such surrender shall not retain any jurisdiction over the child but jurisdiction and financial responsibility over the child shall be vested in a state child welfare agency or other financially responsible entity which must be named as the sending agency.

(6) The receiving state shall be responsible for providing supervision of the placement, if so requested by the sending agency.

(7) The receiving state shall have jurisdiction over the child sufficient to deal with an act of delinquency or crime committed in the receiving state.

(8) The receiving state shall have jurisdiction over the child sufficient to deal with protecting the child from abuse or neglect committed in the receiving state.

(9) Both the sending state and the receiving state shall have jurisdiction sufficient to punish or subject to penalty anyone violating the terms of the Interstate Compact.

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110 CMR 7.517