South Carolina Code 63-19-1020. Instituting proceedings
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Terms Used In South Carolina Code 63-19-1020
- Child: means a person under the age of eighteen. See South Carolina Code 63-1-40
- Court: means the family court. See South Carolina Code 63-19-20
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Parent: means biological parent, adoptive parents, step-parent, or person with legal custody. See South Carolina Code 63-19-20
The parent or custodian of a child, an official of a child welfare board, a public official charged by law with the care of the poor, the recognized agents of an agency, association, society, or institution, a person having knowledge or information of a nature which convinces the person that a child is delinquent or that a child, by reason of his own acts in accordance with this chapter, is subject to the jurisdiction of the court, any person who has suffered injury through the delinquency of a child, or an officer having an arrested child in charge, may institute a proceeding respecting the child.