California Family Code CHAPTER 2 - Agency Adoptions

• Section 8700.
  (a) Either birth parent may relinquish a child to the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency for adoption by a written statement signed before...
• Section 8700.5.
  (a) A relinquishing birth parent may elect to sign a waiver of the right to revoke relinquishment in the presence of any of the following:(1) A representative...
• Section 8701.
  At or before the time a relinquishment is signed, the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency shall advise the birth parent signing the...
• Section 8702.
  (a) The department shall adopt a statement to be presented to the birth parents at the time a relinquishment is signed and to prospective adoptive parents...
• Section 8703.
  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...
• Section 8704.
  (a) The department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency to which a child has been freed for adoption by either relinquishment or termination of parental...
• Section 8704.5.
  (a) A foster care license or certification or resource family approval shall not be required for placement of a nondependent child who is relinquished for adoption...
• Section 8705.
  (a) Where a child is in the custody of a public agency or licensed adoption agency, if it is established that the persons whose consent to...
• Section 8706.
  (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...
• Section 8707.
  (a) The department shall establish a statewide photo-listing service to serve all county adoption agencies and licensed adoption agencies in the state as a means of...
• Section 8707.1.
  (a) The agency responsible for recruitment of potential adoptive parents shall make diligent efforts to recruit individuals who reflect the ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity of...
• Section 8708.
  (a) The adoption agency to which a child has been freed for adoption by either relinquishment or termination of parental rights shall not do any of...
• Section 8709.
  (a) The department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency to which a child has been freed for adoption by either relinquishment or termination of parental...
• Section 8710.
  (a) If a child is being considered for adoption, the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency shall first consider adoptive placement in the home...
• Section 8710.1.
  If there is not an adoptive placement plan for a child with an approved adoptive family, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 8708, within...
• Section 8710.2.
  In order to preclude the delays or denials described in subdivision (c) of Section 8708, the department shall establish a statewide exchange system that interjurisdictionally...
• Section 8710.3.
  If the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency has approved a family for adoption pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 8708 and that...
• Section 8710.4.
  (a) The department shall ensure that information regarding families and children registered with the statewide exchange system described in Section 8710.2 is accessible by licensed adoption...
• Section 8711.
  Sections 8708 to 8710.4, inclusive, apply only in determining the placement of a child who has been relinquished for adoption or has been declared free...
• Section 8711.5.
  The department shall adopt regulations to administer the provisions of Sections 8708 to 8711, inclusive.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 884, Sec. 9. Effective January 1,
• Section 8712.
  (a) (1) The department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency shall require each person who files an application for adoption to be fingerprinted and shall secure...
• Section 8713.
  (a) In no event may a child who has been freed for adoption be removed from the county in which the child was placed, by any...
• Section 8714.
  (a) A person desiring to adopt a nondependent child may for that purpose file an adoption request in a county authorized by Section 8609.5. A person...
• Section 8714.5.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:(1) It is the intent of the Legislature to expedite legal permanency for children who cannot return to their parents...
• Section 8715.
  (a) The department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency, whichever is a party to, or joins in, the petition, shall submit a full report of...
• Section 8716.
  Where a petition is filed for the adoption of a child who has been placed for adoption by a county adoption agency, licensed county adoption...
• Section 8717.
  When any report or findings are submitted to the court by the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency, a copy of the report...
• Section 8718.
  The prospective adoptive parents and the child proposed to be adopted shall appear before the court pursuant to Sections 8612 and 8613.(Enacted by Stats. 1992,...
• Section 8719.
  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...
• Section 8720.
  (a) If the department, county adoption agency, or licensed adoption agency finds that the home of the petitioners is not suitable for the child or that...

Last modified: October 22, 2018