Children’s code
Wis. Stat. ch. 48
in effectContents
section48.01. Title and legislative purposesection48.02. Definitionssection48.03. Time and place of court; absence or disability of judge; court of recordsection48.04. Employees of courtsection48.06. Services for courtsection48.07. Additional sources of court servicessection48.08. Duties of person furnishing services to courtsection48.09. Representation of the interests of the publicsection48.10. Power of the judge to act as intake workersection48.11. Advisory boardsection48.13. Jurisdiction over children alleged to be in need of protection or servicessection48.14. Jurisdiction over other matters relating to childrensection48.15. Jurisdiction of other courts to determine legal custodysection48.16. Jurisdiction over petitions for waiver of parental consent to a minor’s abortionsection48.19. Taking a child into custodysection48.20. Release or delivery of child from custodysection48.21. Hearing for child in custodysection48.022. Electronic filingsection48.023. Guardianshipsection48.23. Right to counselsection48.24. Receipt of jurisdictional information; intake inquirysection48.025. Declaration of paternal interest in matters affecting childrensection48.25. Petition: authorization to filesection48.27. Notice; summonssection48.027. Child custody jurisdictionsection48.028. Indian child welfaresection48.28. Failure to obey summons; capiassection48.029. Pregnancy testing prohibitedsection48.29. Substitution of judgesection48.30. Plea hearingsection48.31. Fact-finding hearingsection48.32. Consent decreesection48.33. Court reportssection48.35. Effect of judgment and dispositionsection48.035. Court; Menominee and Shawano countiessection48.36. Payment for servicessection48.37. Costs and feessection48.38. Permanency planningsection48.40. Definitionssection48.41. Voluntary consent to termination of parental rightssection48.42. Proceduresection48.43. Court orders; contents and effect; reviewsection48.44. Jurisdiction over persons 17 or oldersection48.45. Orders applicable to adultssection48.46. New evidence; relief from judgment terminating parental rightssection48.47. Duties of departmentsection48.48. Authority of departmentsection48.52. Facilities for care of children and adult expectant mothers in care of departmentsection48.55. State adoption information exchange and state adoption centersection48.56. Child welfare services in counties having populations of less than 750,000section48.57. Powers and duties of department and county departments providing child welfare servicessection48.58. County children’s home in populous countiessection48.59. Examination and recordssection48.60. Child welfare agencies licensedsection48.61. Powers and duties of child welfare agenciessection48.62. Licensing of foster homes; ratessection48.63. Restrictions on placementssection48.64. Placement of children in out-of-home caresection48.65. Child care centers licensed; feessection48.66. Licensing duties of the departmentsection48.067. Powers and duties of intake workerssection48.67. Rules governing child welfare agencies, child care centers, foster homes, group homes, shelter care facilities, and county departmentssection48.68. Investigation of applicant; issuing of licensesection48.69. Probationary licensessection48.069. Powers and duties of disposition staffsection48.70. Provisions of licensessection48.72. Appeal proceduresection48.73. Inspection of licensees and school district child care programssection48.74. Authority of department to investigate alleged violationssection48.75. Foster homes licensed by public licensing agencies and by child welfare agenciessection48.76. Penaltiessection48.77. Injunction against violationssection48.78. Confidentiality of recordssection48.79. Powers of the departmentsection48.80. Municipalities may sponsor activitiessection48.81. Who may be adoptedsection48.82. Who may adoptsection48.83. Jurisdiction and venuesection48.84. Preadoption preparation for proposed adoptive parentssection48.85. Recommendation of guardiansection48.88. Notice of hearing; investigationsection48.89. Recommendation of the departmentsection48.90. Filing of adoption petition; preadoption residencesection48.91. Hearing; ordersection48.92. Effect of adoptionsection48.93. Records closedsection48.94. New birth recordsection48.95. Withdrawal or denial of petitionsection48.96. Subsequent adoptionsection48.97. Adoption and guardianship orders of other jurisdictionssection48.98. Interstate placement of childrensection48.99. Interstate Compact for the Placement of Childrensection48.133. Jurisdiction over unborn children in need of protection or services and the expectant mothers of those unborn childrensection48.135. Referral of children and expectant mothers of unborn children to proceedings under chapter 51 or 55section48.185. Venuesection48.193. Taking an adult expectant mother into custodysection48.195. Taking a newborn child into custodysection48.203. Release or delivery of adult expectant mother from custodysection48.205. Criteria for holding a child or expectant mother in physical custodysection48.207. Places where a child or expectant mother may be held in nonsecure custodysection48.208. Criteria for holding a child in a juvenile detention facilitysection48.209. Criteria for holding a child in a county jailsection48.213. Hearing for adult expectant mother in custodysection48.215. Mother-young child care programsection48.217. Change in placement; child or expectant mother held in custodysection48.227. Runaway homessection48.233. Five-county pilot programsection48.235. Guardian ad litemsection48.236. Court-appointed special advocatesection48.243. Basic rights: duty of intake workersection48.245. Informal dispositionsection48.255. Petition; form and contentsection48.257. Petition to initiate a procedure to waive parental consent prior to a minor’s abortionsection48.263. Amendment of petitionsection48.273. Service of summons or notice; expensesection48.275. Parents’ contribution to cost of court and legal servicessection48.293. Discoverysection48.295. Physical, psychological, mental or developmental examinationsection48.297. Motions before trialsection48.299. Procedures at hearingssection48.305. Hearing upon the involuntary removal of a child or expectant mothersection48.315. Delays, continuances and extensionssection48.317. Jeopardysection48.335. Dispositional hearingssection48.345. Disposition of child or unborn child of child expectant mother adjudged in need of protection or servicessection48.347. Disposition of unborn child of adult expectant mother adjudged in need of protection or servicessection48.355. Dispositional orderssection48.356. Duty of court to warnsection48.357. Change in placement; child or expectant mother subject to dispositional ordersection48.358. Trial reunificationsection48.361. Payment for alcohol and other drug abuse servicessection48.362. Payment for certain special treatment or care servicessection48.363. Revision of dispositional orderssection48.365. Extension of orderssection48.366. Extended out-of-home caresection48.368. Continuation of dispositional orderssection48.371. Access to certain information by substitute care providersection48.373. Medical authorizationsection48.375. Parental consent required prior to abortion; judicial waiver proceduresection48.383. Reasonable and prudent parent standardsection48.385. Plan for transition to independent livingsection48.396. Recordssection48.415. Grounds for involuntary termination of parental rightssection48.417. Petition for termination of parental rights; when requiredsection48.422. Hearing on the petitionsection48.423. Rights of persons alleging paternitysection48.424. Fact-finding hearingsection48.425. Court report by an agencysection48.426. Standard and factorssection48.427. Dispositionssection48.432. Access to medical informationsection48.433. Access to identifying information about parentssection48.434. Release of identifying information by an agency when authorization is grantedsection48.435. Custody of childrensection48.437. Change in placement; posttermination of parental rightssection48.465. Motion for postdisposition relief and appealsection48.468. Purpose of departmentsection48.481. Grants for children’s community programssection48.485. Transfer of Indian children to department for adoptionsection48.487. Tribal family servicessection48.526. Community youth and family aidssection48.527. Community youth and family aids; bonus for county facilitiessection48.528. Community intervention programsection48.545. Brighter futures initiativesection48.546. Family treatment court grant programsection48.547. Alcohol and other drug abuse programsection48.548. Multidisciplinary screen and assessment criteriasection48.561. Child welfare services in a county having a population of 750,000 or moresection48.562. Milwaukee child welfare partnership councilsection48.563. Children and family aids fundingsection48.565. Carry-over of children and family aids fundssection48.568. Allocation of federal funds for children and family aids and child welfaresection48.569. Distribution of children and family aids funds to countiessection48.576. Shelter care facilities; general supervision and inspection by departmentsection48.578. Shelter care facilities; establishment, approval, inspectionsection48.599. Definitionssection48.615. Child welfare agency licensing feessection48.619. Definitionsection48.623. Subsidized guardianshipssection48.625. Licensing of group homes; feessection48.627. Foster parent insurance and liabilitysection48.645. Foster care aidsection48.647. Second-chance homessection48.651. Certification of child care providerssection48.653. Information for child care providerssection48.655. Parental accesssection48.656. Parent’s right to knowsection48.657. Child care center reportssection48.658. Child safety alarms in child care vehiclessection48.659. Child care quality rating systemsection48.672. Video surveillance and recordingsection48.675. Qualified residential treatment programssection48.685. Criminal history and child abuse record searchsection48.686. Criminal history and child abuse record search; child caresection48.715. Sanctions and penaltiessection48.735. Immunization requirements; child care centerssection48.737. Lead screening, inspection and reduction requirements; child care centerssection48.743. Community living arrangements for childrensection48.745. Formal complaints regarding child welfare agencies and group homessection48.825. Advertising related to adoptionsection48.831. Appointment of guardian for child without a living parent for adoptability findingsection48.832. Transfer of guardianship upon revocation of guardian’s license or contractsection48.833. Placement of children for adoption by the department, county departments, and child welfare agenciessection48.834. Placement of children with relatives or siblings for adoption by the department, county departments, and child welfare agenciessection48.835. Placement of children with relatives for adoptionsection48.837. Placement of children with nonrelatives for adoptionsection48.838. Foreign adoption feessection48.839. Adoption of foreign childrensection48.841. Persons required to file recommendation as to adoptionsection48.871. Filing of recommendation by guardiansection48.913. Payments by adoptive or proposed adoptive parents to a birth parent or child or on behalf of a birth parent or childsection48.915. Adoption appeals given preferencesection48.925. Visitation rights of certain personssection48.975. Adoption assistancesection48.977. Appointment of guardians for certain children in need of protection or servicessection48.978. Appointment or designation of standby guardian of a childsection48.979. Delegation of power by parentsection48.981. Abused or neglected children and abused unborn childrensection48.982. Child abuse and neglect prevention boardsection48.983. Child abuse and neglect prevention programsection48.986. Child abuse and neglect and unborn child abuse servicessection48.987. Earnings of self-supporting minorssection48.988. Interstate compact on the placement of childrensection48.989. Interstate compact on the placement of children: additional proceduresection48.999. Expediting interstate placements of childrensection48.9795. Appointment of guardian of the person for a childsection48.9875. Minor consent for housingsection48.9895. Withdrawal from Interstate Compact on the Placement of Childrensection48.9985. Interstate adoption agreements
Source: WI Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/48Fetched: 10/7/2026