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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8807

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 shall investigate the proposed independent adoption and, after the remaining balance of the fee is paid, submit to the cou

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8808

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8808

(a) The department or delegated county adoption agency shall interview the petitioners within 45 working days, excluding legal holidays, after the department or delegated county adoption agency receives 50 percent of the investigation fee together with a stamped file copy of the

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8810

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 nonrefundable fee to the department or to the delegated county adoption agency for the cost of investigating the adoption peti

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8811

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 appropriate law enforcement agency any criminal record of that person to determine if the person has ever been convicted of

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8811.5

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 evaluation that contains a finding that an individual is suited to be an adoptive parent. (b) The preplacement evaluation shall i

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8812

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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, or living expenses of the birth mother shall be in writing. The birth parent or parents shall, by first-class mail or oth

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8813

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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, verbally and in writing, that the birth parent may, at any time in the future, request from the department or agency, all k

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8814

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 the adoption shall be signed in the presence of an agent of the department or of a delegated county adoption agency on a

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8814.5

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 consent shall have 30 days to take one of the following actions: (1) Sign and deliver to the department or delegated county ado

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8815

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 may not be withdrawn. (b) Before the time when the revocable consent becomes permanent as provided in Section 8814.5, the

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8816

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 the hearing of the petition, file its consent to the adoption with the clerk of the court in which the petition is filed.

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8817

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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, shall be made by the department or delegated county adoption agency as part of the study required by Section 8806. (b) The r

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8818

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 parents at the time of the home study. The statement shall, in a clear and concise manner and in words calculated to ensure th

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8819

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 with Section 7800) of Division 12, the department or delegated county adoption agency shall send a written notice to the b

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8820

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 percent of the fee, or upon the expiration of any extension of the period granted by the court, the department or delegated co

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8821

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 favorable or unfavorable, shall be given to the petitioner’s attorney in the proceeding, if the petitioner has an attorney of

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8822

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 required consents are not available and the department or agency recommends that the petition be denied, or if the petitioners

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8823

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8823

The prospective adoptive parents and the child proposed to be adopted shall appear before the court pursuant to Sections 8612 and 8613.

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8900

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8900

(a) Intercountry adoption services described in this chapter shall be exclusively provided by private adoption agencies licensed by the department specifically to provide these services. As a condition of licensure to provide intercountry adoption services, any private full-servi

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8900.5

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 F (commencing with Section 96.29) of Part 96 of Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations, to provide adoption service

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8901

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8901

The department shall adopt regulations to administer the intercountry adoption program.

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8902

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 the suitability of the applicant’s home. (b) Placement of the foreign-born child in an approved home. (c) Postplacement sup

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8903

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8903

(a) For each intercountry adoption finalized in this state, the licensed adoption agency shall assume all responsibilities for the child including care, custody, and control as if the child had been relinquished for adoption in this state from the time the child left the child’s

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8904

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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) Assessment of the suitability of the applicant’s home. (b) Certification to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Servic

Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8905

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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8905

Licensed adoption agencies may work only with domestic and foreign adoption agencies with whom they have written agreements that specify the responsibilities of each. The agreements may not violate any statute or regulation of the United States or of this state.