# Foster Care Legal Representation
> **US Department of Health and Human Services** · Final rule. · Published 2024-05-10 · Effective 2024-07-09 · 89 FR 40400
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-09663
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Health and Human Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 40400
- **CFR reference:** 45 CFR 1356
- **Publication date:** 2024-05-10
- **Effective date:** 2024-07-09
## Abstract

This rule allows title IV-E agencies to claim Federal financial participation (FFP) for the administrative costs of: legal representation in foster care proceedings provided by an attorney representing the title IV-E agency or any other public agency (including an Indian tribe) which has an agreement in effect under which the other agency has placement and care responsibility of a title IV-E eligible child; independent legal representation provided by an attorney representing a child in title IV-E foster care, a child who is a candidate for title IV-E foster care (hereafter, referred to as a child "who is eligible for title IV-E foster care"), the child's parent(s), the child's relative caregiver(s), and the child's Indian custodian(s) in foster care and other civil legal proceedings as necessary to carry out the requirements in the title IV-E agency's title IV-E foster care plan; and legal representation provided by an attorney representing an Indian child's tribe, or representation of an Indian child's tribe provided by a non-attorney, when the child's tribe participates or intervenes in any state court proceeding for the foster care placement or termination of parental rights (TPR) of an Indian child who is in title IV-E foster care or an Indian child who is a candidate for title IV-E foster care.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/10/2024-09663/foster-care-legal-representation)
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