PER CURIAM.
In 1995 the Arkansas Supreme Court appointed an Ad Hoc Committee on Foster Care and Adoption to assess court processes, make findings and recommendations, and implement plans for improvements in court practice to enable children who are abused and neglected to be placed in safe and permanent homes in a timely fashion.
This committee issued its report of findings and recommendations in 1997 and is working diligently to implement its recommended improvements. The committee has drafted legislation designed to expedite trial court proceedings and now recommends an amendment to Ark. R. App. P. — Civ. 2 to expedite appeals in these cases. We commend the committee for its work and dedication to the children in our state. Having considered the committee's proposal we adopt and republish Rule 2, as amended, effective immediately.
Rule 2. APPEALABLE MATTERS; PRIORITY
(a) An appeal may be taken from any of the following orders entered by a circuit, chancery, or probate court:
1. A final judgment or decree entered by the trial court;
2. An order which in effect determines the action and prevents a judgment from which an appeal might be taken, or discontinues the action;
3. An order which grants or refuses a new trial;
4. An order which strikes out an answer, or any part of an answer, or any pleading in an action;
5. An order which vacates or sustains an attachment or garnishment;
6. An interlocutory order by which an injunction is granted, continued, modified, refused, or dissolved, or by which an application to dissolve or modify an injunction is refused;
7. An interlocutory order appointing a receiver, or refusing to wind up a pending receivership or to take the appropriate steps to accomplish the purposes thereof, such as directing a sale or other disposal of property held thereunder;
8. An order which disqualifies an attorney from further participation in the case;
9. An order granting or denying a motion to certify a case as a class action in accordance with Rule 23 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure.
(b) An appeal from any final order also brings up for review any intermediate order involving the merits and necessarily affecting the judgment.
(c) All appeals from juvenile court shall be made in the same time and manner provided for appeals from chancery court.
1. In delinquency cases, the state may appeal only under those circumstances that would permit the state to appeal in criminal proceedings.
2. Pending an appeal from any case involving a juvenile out-of-home placement, the juvenile court retains jurisdiction to conduct review hearings.
3. In juvenile cases where an out-of-home placement has been ordered, orders resulting from the hearings set below are final appealable orders:
(A) adjudication and disposition hearings;
(B) review and permanency planning hearings if the court directs entry of a final judgment as to one or more of the issues or parties and upon express determination supported by factual findings that there is no just reason for delay of an appeal, in accordance with Ark. R. Civ. P., Rule 54(b); and
(C) termination of parental rights.
(d) All final orders awarding custody are final appealable orders.
(e) Appeals in criminal cases have priority over all other business. With respect to civil cases, appeals under subdivisions (a)(6), (a)(7), (a)(9), (c)(3), and (d) of this rule take precedence.