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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9204
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9204
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, if an adult adoptee and the adult adoptee’s birth parents have each filed a written consent with the department or licensed adoption agency, the department or licensed adoption agency may arrange for contact between those persons. Neither the de
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9205
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9205
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency that joined in the adoption petition shall release the names and addresses of siblings to one another if both of the siblings have attained 18 years of age and have filed the fo
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9206
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9206
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department or licensed adoption agency shall release any letters, photographs, or other items of personal property in its possession to an adoptee, birth parent, or adoptive parent, upon written request. The material may be requested by any
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9208
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9208
(a) The clerk of the superior court entering a final order of adoption concerning an Indian child shall provide the United States Secretary of the Interior or a designee with a copy of the order within 30 days of the date of the order, together with any information necessary to s
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9209
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9209
(a) Upon application by an Indian individual who has reached the age of 18 years and who was the subject of an adoptive placement, the court which entered the final decree of adoption shall inform that individual of the tribal affiliation, if any, of the individual’s biological p
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9210
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9210
(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), a court of this state has jurisdiction over a proceeding for the adoption of a minor commenced under this part if any of the following applies: (1) Immediately before commencement of the proceeding, the minor lived in
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9212
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9212
(a) Sections 9210 and 9211 apply to interstate adoptions if the prospective adoptive parents reside outside of the state. (b) This section shall become operative only if Assembly Bill 746 of the 2001–02 Regular Session is enacted. If Assembly Bill 746 is not enacted, the applicat
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 930
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 930
Except as otherwise provided by statute, this part governs the liability of separate property and property in the community estate and the personal liability of a married person for a debt enforced on or after January 1, 1985, regardless of whether the debt was incurred before, o
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9300
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9300
(a) An adult may be adopted by another adult, including a stepparent, as provided in this part. (b) A married minor may be adopted in the same manner as an adult under this part.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9301
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9301
A married person who is not lawfully separated from the person’s spouse may not adopt an adult without the consent of the spouse, provided that the spouse is capable of giving that consent.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9302
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9302
(a) A married person who is not lawfully separated from the person’s spouse may not be adopted without the consent of the spouse, provided that the spouse is capable of giving that consent. (b) The consent of the parents of the proposed adoptee, of the department, or of any other
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9303
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9303
(a) Except as permitted by the court, upon a finding of good cause, a person shall not adopt more than one unrelated adult pursuant to this part within one year of the person’s adoption of an unrelated adult unless the proposed adoptee is the biological sibling of a person previo
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9304
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9304
A person adopted pursuant to this part may take the family name of the adoptive parent.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9305
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9305
After adoption, the adoptee and the adoptive parent or parents shall sustain towards each other the legal relationship of parent and child and have all the rights and are subject to all the duties of that relationship.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9306
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9306
(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), the birth parents of a person adopted pursuant to this part are, from the time of the adoption, relieved of all parental duties towards, and all responsibility for, the adopted person, and have no right over the adopted person.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9307
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9307
A hearing with regard to adoption under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 9320) or termination of a parent and child relationship under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 9340) may, in the discretion of the court, be open and public.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 931
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 931
The provisions of this part that govern reimbursement apply to all debts, regardless of whether satisfied before, on, or after January 1, 1985.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9320
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9320
(a) An adult may adopt another adult who is younger, except the spouse of the prospective adoptive parent, by an adoption agreement approved by the court, as provided in this chapter. (b) The adoption agreement shall be in writing, executed by the prospective adoptive parent and
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9321
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9321
(a) The prospective adoptive parent and the proposed adoptee may file in the county in which either person resides a petition for approval of the adoption agreement. (b) The petition for approval of the adoption agreement shall state all of the following: (1) The length and natur
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9321.5
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9321.5
(a) Notwithstanding Section 9321, a person who is a resident of this state may file a petition for adult adoption with the court in any of the following: (1) The county in which the prospective adoptive parent resides. (2) The county in which the proposed adoptee was born or resi
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9322
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9322
When the petition for approval of the adoption agreement is filed, the court clerk shall set the matter for hearing.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9323
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9323
The court may require notice of the time and place of the hearing to be served on any other interested person and any interested person may appear and object to the proposed adoption.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9324
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9324
Both the prospective adoptive parent and the proposed adoptee shall appear at the hearing in person, unless the court allows otherwise pursuant to Section 8613.5.
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9325
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9325
No investigation or report to the court by any public officer or agency is required, but the court may require the county probation officer or the department to investigate the circumstances of the proposed adoption and report thereon, with recommendations, to the court before th
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Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9326
Family Code - FAM - FAM § 9326
The prospective adoptive parent shall mail or personally serve notice of the hearing and a copy of the petition to the director of the regional center for the developmentally disabled, established pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 4620) of Division 4.5 of the Welfare