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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8906
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 share or transfer financial responsibility for the child.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8907
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 required by this chapter. The agency’s fee schedule is required to be approved by the department initially and whenever it
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8908
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 enforcement agency any criminal record of that person to determine if the person has ever been convicted of a crime other than
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8909
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 child’s biological parents so far as ascertainable, has been submitted to the prospective adoptive parents and they have ack
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8910
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 adopt the child, without first obtaining the written consent of the licensed adoption agency responsible for the child. (
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8911
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8912
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 immediately notify the department at Sacramento in writing of the pendency of the proceeding and of any subsequent action t
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8913
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8913
The prospective adoptive parents and the child proposed to be adopted shall appear before the court pursuant to Sections 8612 and 8613.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8914
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 department may also submit a report.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8915
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 be given to the petitioner’s attorney in the proceeding, if the petitioner has an attorney of record, or to the petition
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8916
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 Sacramento of the action. The licensed adoption agency shall file a full report with the court recommending a suitable plan for t
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8917
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 and the agency recommends that the petition be denied, or if the petitioners desire to withdraw the petition and the age
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8918
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 recommended denial or the petitioners desire to withdraw the petition or the court dismisses the petition and does not retu
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8919
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 in a foreign country shall file the petition to readopt within the earlier of 60 days of the adoptee’s entry into the Un
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8919.5
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 calendar days of the adoptee’s arrival in California. (b) If the adoption agency fails to report to the department pursuant to
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8920
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 state may petition the court to enforce any agreement for visitation to which the separate adoptive families of the sibl
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8923
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 in Subpart J (commencing with Section 96.68) of Part 96 of Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (b) Each private f
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8924
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 described in this chapter, shall perform all of the following: (1) A background study on the child prepared in accordance w
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 8925
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 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 shall be recognized as a final valid adoption for purposes of all state and local laws.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9
The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future, the present.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 900
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 900
Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions in this chapter govern the construction of this part.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9000
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9000
(a) A stepparent desiring to adopt a child of the stepparent’s spouse may for that purpose file a petition in any county authorized by Section 8609.5. (b) A domestic partner, as defined in Section 297, desiring to adopt a child of the other domestic partner may, for that purpose,
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9000.5
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9000.5
(a) The procedures provided in this section apply to a stepparent adoption where the child was born during the marriage or domestic partnership, including a registered domestic partnership or civil union from another jurisdiction, and either of the following circumstances applies
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9001
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9001
(a) Except as provided in Section 9000.5, before granting or denying a stepparent adoption request, the court shall review and consider a written investigative report. The report in a stepparent adoption case shall not require a home study unless so ordered by the court upon requ
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9002
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9002
Except as provided in Section 9000.5, in a stepparent adoption, the prospective adoptive parent is liable for all reasonable costs incurred in connection with the stepparent adoption, including, but not limited to, costs incurred for the investigation required by Section 9001, up