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Texas Family Code - Section 107.0511. Pre-Adoptive Home Screening

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§ 107.0511. PRE-ADOPTIVE HOME SCREENING.  (a) In this 
section, "department" means the Department of Protective and 
Regulatory Services.
	(b)  A pre-adoptive home screening shall be conducted as 
provided by this section to evaluate each party in a proceeding 
described by Subsection (c) who requests termination of the 
parent-child relationship or an adoption. 
	(c)  Except for a suit brought by a licensed child-placing 
agency or the department, the home screening under this section 
shall be filed in any suit for:
		(1)  termination of the parent-child relationship in 
which a person other than a parent may be appointed managing 
conservator of a child;  or
		(2)  an adoption.                                                             
	(d)  Other than in a suit in which a licensed child-placing 
agency or the department is appointed managing conservator of the 
child, the home screening under this section must be filed with the 
court before the court may sign the final order for termination of 
the parent-child relationship.
	(e)  The costs of a home screening in a suit for adoption 
under this section shall be paid by the prospective adoptive 
parent.
	(f)  Unless otherwise agreed to by the court, the home 
screening under this section must comply with the minimum 
requirements for the screening under rules adopted by the Board of 
Protective and Regulatory Services.
	(g)  In a stepparent adoption, the pre-adoptive home 
screening under this section and the post-placement adoptive report 
under Section 107.052 may be combined.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 133, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.           

Last modified: August 11, 2007