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The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.
plagiarism
What is the CHINS Act?
Children in Need of Supervision Act 14-6-401
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Adjudication
Adjudication” means a finding by the court or the jury, incorporated in a decree, as to the truth of the facts alleged in the petition.
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Adult
“Adult” means an individual who has attained the age of majority;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Child
“Child” means an individual who is under the age of majority;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Child in Need of Supervision
Child in need of supervision” means any child who has not reached his eighteenth birthday who is habitually truant or has run away from home or habitually disobeys reasonable and lawful demands of his parents, guardian, custodian or other proper authority or is ungovernable and beyond control. “Child in need of supervision” includes any child who has not reached his eighteenth birthday who has committed a status offense;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Clerk
“Clerk” means the clerk of a district court acting as the clerk of a juvenile court;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Commissioner
“Commissioner” means a district court commissioner;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Court
“Court” means the juvenile court established by W.S. 5-8-101 which states “Courts are established in each county of the state known as the “Juvenile Court of County, Wyoming.” The district court judges of the state shall be the judges of the juvenile courts in the counties of their respective districts. Each juvenile court shall be a court of record with a seal and the judge, commissioner and clerk thereof have power to administer oaths and affirmations.”
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Custodian
“Custodian” means a person, institution or agency responsible for the child’s welfare and having legal custody of a child by court order or having actual physical custody and control of a child and acting in loco parentis;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Deprivation of Custody
“Deprivation of custody” means transfer of legal custody by the court from a parent or previous legal custodian to another person, agency, organization or institution;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Detention
“Detention” means the temporary care of a child in physically restricting facilities pending court disposition or execution of a court order for placement or commitment;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Judge
“Judge” means the judge of the juvenile court;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Legal Custody
“Legal custody” means a legal status created by court order which vests in a custodian the right to have physical custody of a minor, the right and duty to protect, train and discipline a minor, the duty to provide him with food, shelter, clothing, ordinary medical care, education and in an emergency, the right and duty to authorize surgery or other extraordinary medical care. The rights and duties of legal custody are subject to the rights and duties of the guardian of the person of the minor, and to residual parental rights and duties;
CHINS Definitions 14-6-402: Minor
Minor” means an individual who is under the age of majority;