CHAPTER 4. Intercountry Adoptions [8900. - 8925.]
Chapter 4 enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10.
§§ 8900–8925 · 26 sections
- § 8900 (a) Intercountry adoption services described in this chapter shall be exclusively provided by private adoption agencies licensed by the department specifically…
- § 8900.5 As used in this chapter: (a) “Accredited agency” means an agency that has been accredited by an accrediting entity, in accordance with the standards in Subpart…
- § 8901 The department shall adopt regulations to administer the intercountry adoption program.
- § 8902 For intercountry adoptions that will be finalized in this state, the licensed adoption agency shall provide all of the following services: (a) Assessment of…
- § 8903 (a) For each intercountry adoption finalized in this state, the licensed adoption agency shall assume all responsibilities for the child including care,…
- § 8904 For an intercountry adoption that will be finalized in a foreign country, the licensed adoption agency shall provide all of the following services: (a)…
- § 8905 Licensed adoption agencies may work only with domestic and foreign adoption agencies with whom they have written agreements that specify the responsibilities…
- § 8906 Nothing in this chapter may be construed to prohibit the licensed adoption agency from entering into an agreement with the prospective adoptive parents to…
- § 8907 The costs incurred by a licensed adoption agency pursuant to programs established by this chapter shall be funded by fees charged by the agency for services…
- § 8908 (a) A licensed adoption agency shall require each person filing an application for adoption to be fingerprinted and shall secure from an appropriate law…
- § 8909 (a) An agency may not place a child for adoption unless a written report on the child’s medical background and, if available, the medical background of the…
- § 8910 (a) In no event may a child who has been placed for adoption be removed from the county in which the child was placed, by any person who has not petitioned to…
- § 8911 As a condition of placement, the prospective adoptive parents shall file a petition to adopt the child under Section 8912 within 30 days of placement.
- § 8912 (a) An international adoption or readoption request may be filed by a resident of this state in a county authorized by Section 8609.5. The court clerk shall…
- § 8913 The prospective adoptive parents and the child proposed to be adopted shall appear before the court pursuant to Sections 8612 and 8613.
- § 8914 If the licensed adoption agency is a party to or joins in the adoption petition, it shall submit a full report of the facts of the case to the court. The…
- § 8915 When any report or findings are submitted to the court by a licensed adoption agency, a copy of the report or findings, whether favorable or unfavorable, shall…
- § 8916 (a) If the petitioners move to withdraw the adoption petition or to dismiss the proceeding, the court clerk shall immediately notify the department at…
- § 8917 (a) If the licensed adoption agency finds that the home of the petitioners is not suitable for the child or that the required agency consents are not available…
- § 8918 At the hearing, if the court sustains the recommendation that the child be removed from the home of the petitioners because the licensed adoption agency has…
- § 8919 (a) In order to establish a record by which an adoptee can prove the facts of the foreign adoption, a state resident who has finalized an intercountry adoption…
- § 8919.5 (a) An intercountry adoption agency shall report the arrival of an adoptee whose adoption was finalized in a foreign country to the department within 14…
- § 8920 (a) A child who was adopted as part of a sibling group and who has been separated from the child’s sibling or siblings through readoption by a resident of this…
- § 8923 (a) A complaint against an accredited agency or approved person in connection with a convention adoption shall be filed according to the procedures set forth…
- § 8924 (a) For cases in which a child is emigrating from California to a convention country, an accredited agency or approved person providing any adoption service…
- § 8925 A Hague adoption certificate or, in outgoing cases, a Hague custody declaration, obtained pursuant to Part 97 of Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations…