Once the hearing shows that protective disposition cannot be made or is not needed, what must the juvenile court judge do, and who has to be told?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In the practice file, the hearing record shows what the juvenile court judge found on whether protective disposition can or need be made. A copy of the no-disposition ruling and its record of service show which persons were told, so the file can be checked against the provision's requirement to notify the juvenile and the guardian.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the condition as it stands: as a result of the hearing, where the juvenile court judge recognises that protective disposition cannot be made or that there is no need for it, the judge must make a decision to that effect, and must notify both the juvenile and the guardian.
Another reading looks at what the second paragraph brings in: the general ruling provisions applied by reference govern this decision, so what the record of the decision must contain, and how it proceeds, are not set out here but in those applied provisions.
Your judgment
Where the file names a guardian, what would show that the guardian received notice of the no-disposition ruling?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change the grounds for the ruling or who must be notified, or if a court decision explains what the applied general ruling provisions require in this procedure.