CHAPTER 3. Independent Adoptions [8800. - 8823.]

Chapter 3 enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10.

§§ 8800–8823 · 28 sections

§ 8800 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that an attorney’s ability to effectively represent a client may be seriously impaired when conflict of interest…
§ 8801 (a) The selection of a prospective adoptive parent or parents shall be personally made by the child’s birth parent or parents and may not be delegated to an…
§ 8801.3 A child shall not be considered to have been placed for adoption unless each of the following is true: (a) Each birth parent placing the child for adoption has…
§ 8801.5 (a) Each birth parent placing a child for adoption shall be advised of their rights by an adoption service provider. (b) The birth parent shall be advised of…
§ 8801.7 (a) An adoption service provider shall also witness the signature of the adoption placement agreement and offer to interview the birth parent after the…
§ 8802 (a) Any of the following adult persons who desire to adopt a child may, for that purpose, file an adoption request in a county authorized by Section 8609.5:…
§ 8803 (a) During the pendency of an adoption proceeding: (1) The child proposed to be adopted shall not be concealed from the agency that is investigating the…
§ 8804 (a) Whenever the petitioners move to withdraw the petition for the adoption or to dismiss the proceeding, the clerk of the court in which the proceeding is…
§ 8805 At the hearing, if the court sustains the recommendation of the department or delegated county adoption agency that the child be removed from the home of the…
§ 8806 The department or delegated county adoption agency shall accept the consent of the birth parents to the adoption of the child by the petitioners and, before…
§ 8807 (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), within 180 days after receiving 50 percent of the fee, the department or delegated county adoption agency…
§ 8808 (a) The department or delegated county adoption agency shall interview the petitioners within 45 working days, excluding legal holidays, after the department…
§ 8810 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whenever a petition is filed under this chapter for the adoption of a child, the petitioner shall pay a…
§ 8811 (a) The department or delegated county adoption agency shall require each person who files an adoption petition to be fingerprinted and shall secure from an…
§ 8811.5 (a) A licensed private or public adoption agency of the state of the petitioners’ residency may certify prospective adoptive parents by a preplacement…
§ 8812 Any request by a birth parent or birth parents for payment by the prospective adoptive parents of attorney’s fees, medical fees and expenses, counseling fees,…
§ 8813 At or before the time a consent to adoption is signed, the department or delegated county adoption agency shall advise the birth parent signing the consent,…
§ 8814 (a) Except as provided in Section 7662, the consent of the birth parent or parents who did not place the child for adoption, as described in Section 8801.3, to…
§ 8814.5 (a) After a consent to the adoption is signed by the birth parent or parents pursuant to Section 8801.3 or 8814, the birth parent or parents signing the…
§ 8815 (a) Once the revocable consent to adoption has become permanent as provided in Section 8814.5, the consent to the adoption by the prospective adoptive parents…
§ 8816 In an independent adoption where the consent of the birth parent or parents is not necessary, the department or delegated county adoption agency shall, before…
§ 8817 (a) A written report on the child’s medical background, and if available, the medical background of the child’s biological parents so far as ascertainable,…
§ 8818 (a) The department shall adopt a statement to be presented to the birth parents at the time the consent to adoption is signed and to prospective adoptive…
§ 8819 When the parental rights of a birth parent are terminated pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 7660) of Part 3 of Division 12 or Part 4 (commencing…
§ 8820 (a) The birth parent or parents or the petitioner may appeal in either of the following cases: (1) If for a period of 180 days from the date of paying 50…
§ 8821 When any report or findings are submitted to the court by the department or a delegated county adoption agency, a copy of the report or findings, whether…
§ 8822 (a) If the findings of the department or delegated county adoption agency are that the home of the petitioners is not suitable for the child or that the…
§ 8823 The prospective adoptive parents and the child proposed to be adopted shall appear before the court pursuant to Sections 8612 and 8613.