California Family Code CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions

• Section 8600.
  An unmarried minor may be adopted by an adult as provided in this part.(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)
• Section 8600.5.
  Tribal customary adoption as defined in Section 366.24 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and as applied to Indian Children who are dependents of the...
• Section 8601.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), a prospective adoptive parent or parents shall be at least 10 years older than the child.(b) If the court...
• Section 8601.5.
  (a) A court may issue an order of adoption and declare that it shall be entered nunc pro tunc when it will serve public policy and...
• Section 8602.
  The consent of a child, if over the age of 12 years, is necessary to the child’s adoption.(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10....
• Section 8603.
  (a) A married person, not lawfully separated from the person’s spouse, shall not adopt a child without the consent of the spouse, provided that the spouse...
• Section 8604.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), a child having a presumed father under Section 7611 shall not be adopted without the consent of the child’s...
• Section 8605.
  A child not having a presumed father under Section 7611 may not be adopted without the consent of the child’s mother, if living.(Enacted by Stats....
• Section 8606.
  Notwithstanding Sections 8604 and 8605, the consent of a birth parent is not necessary in the following cases:(a) Where the birth parent has been judicially deprived...
• Section 8606.5.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other section in this part, and in accordance with Section 1913 of the Indian Child Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. Sec. 1901 et seq.),...
• Section 8607.
  All forms adopted by the department authorizing the release of an infant from a health facility to the custody of persons other than the person...
• Section 8608.
  (a) The department shall adopt regulations specifying the form and content of the reports required by Sections 8706, 8817, and 8909. In addition to any other...
• Section 8609.
  (a) Any person or organization that, without holding a valid and unrevoked license to place children for adoption issued by the department, advertises in any periodical...
• Section 8609.5.
  An adoption request for the adoption of a nondependent minor may be filed with the court in the county in which one of the following...
• Section 8610.
  (a) The petitioners in a proceeding for adoption of a child shall file with the court a full accounting report of all disbursements of anything of...
• Section 8611.
  All court hearings in an adoption proceeding shall be held in private, and the court shall exclude all persons except the officers of the court,...
• Section 8612.
  (a) The court shall examine all persons appearing before it pursuant to this part. The examination of each person shall be conducted separately but within the...
• Section 8613.
  (a) If the prospective adoptive parent is commissioned or enlisted in the military service, or auxiliary thereof, of the United States, or of any of its...
• Section 8613.5.
  (a) (1) If it is impossible or impracticable for either prospective adoptive parent to make an appearance in person, and the circumstances are established by clear and...
• Section 8613.7.
  On and after January 1, 2014, the court shall provide to any petitioner for adoption pursuant to this part a notice informing him or her...
• Section 8614.
  Upon the request of the adoptive parents or the adopted child, a clerk of the superior court may issue a certificate of adoption that states...
• Section 8615.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, an action may be brought in the county in which the petitioner resides for the purpose of obtaining for a child...
• Section 8616.
  After adoption, the adopted child and the adoptive parents shall sustain towards each other the legal relationship of parent and child and have all the...
• Section 8616.5.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that some adoptive children may benefit from either direct or indirect contact with birth relatives, including the birth parent or...
• Section 8617.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the existing parent or parents of an adopted child are, from the time of the adoption, relieved of all...
• Section 8618.
  A child adopted pursuant to this part may take the family name of the adoptive parent.(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January...
• Section 8619.
  The department shall adopt rules and regulations it determines are reasonably necessary to ensure that the birth parent or parents of Indian ancestry, seeking to...
• Section 8619.5.
  Whenever a final decree of adoption of an Indian child has been vacated or set aside or the adoptive parent voluntary consents to termination of...
• Section 8620.
  (a) (1) If a parent is seeking to relinquish a child pursuant to Section 8700 or execute an adoption placement agreement pursuant to Section 8801.3, the department,...
• Section 8621.
  The department shall adopt regulations regarding the provision of adoption services by the department, county adoption agencies, licensed adoption agencies, and other adoption service providers,...
• Section 8622.
  A licensed private adoption agency whose services are limited to a particular target population shall inform all birth parents and prospective adoptive parents of its...

Last modified: October 22, 2018