California Family Code CHAPTER 3 - Independent Adoptions

• Section 8800.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that an attorney’s ability to effectively represent his or her client may be seriously impaired when conflict of interest deprives...
• Section 8801.
  (a) The selection of a prospective adoptive parent or parents shall be personally made by the child’s birth parent or parents and may not be delegated...
• Section 8801.3.
  A child shall not be considered to have been placed for adoption unless each of the following is true:(a) Each birth parent placing the child for...
• Section 8801.5.
  (a) Each birth parent placing a child for adoption shall be advised of his or her rights by an adoption service provider.(b) The birth parent shall be...
• Section 8801.7.
  (a) An adoption service provider shall also witness the signature of the adoption placement agreement and offer to interview the birth parent after the placement of...
• Section 8802.
  (a) (1) Any of the following persons who desire to adopt a child may, for that purpose, file an adoption request in a county authorized by Section...
• Section 8803.
  (a) During the pendency of an adoption proceeding:(1) The child proposed to be adopted may not be concealed within the county in which the adoption proceeding is...
• Section 8804.
  (a) Whenever the petitioners move to withdraw the petition for the adoption or to dismiss the proceeding, the clerk of the court in which the proceeding...
• Section 8805.
  At the hearing, if the court sustains the recommendation of the department or delegated county adoption agency that the child be removed from the home...
• Section 8806.
  The department or delegated county adoption agency shall accept the consent of the birth parents to the adoption of the child by the petitioners and,...
• Section 8807.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), within 180 days after receiving 50 percent of the fee, the department or delegated county adoption agency...
• Section 8808.
  (a) The department or delegated county adoption agency shall interview the petitioners within 45 working days, excluding legal holidays, after the department or delegated county adoption...
• Section 8810.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whenever a petition is filed under this chapter for the adoption of a child, the petitioner shall pay...
• Section 8811.
  (a) The department or delegated county adoption agency shall require each person who files an adoption petition to be fingerprinted and shall secure from an appropriate...
• Section 8811.5.
  (a) A licensed private or public adoption agency of the state of the petitioners’ residency may certify prospective adoptive parents by a preplacement evaluation that contains...
• Section 8812.
  Any request by a birth parent or birth parents for payment by the prospective adoptive parents of attorney’s fees, medical fees and expenses, counseling fees,...
• Section 8813.
  At or before the time a consent to adoption is signed, the department or delegated county adoption agency shall advise the birth parent signing the...
• Section 8814.
  (a) Except as provided in Section 7662, the consent of the birth parent or parents who did not place the child for adoption, as described in...
• Section 8814.5.
  (a) After a consent to the adoption is signed by the birth parent or parents pursuant to Section 8801.3 or 8814, the birth parent or parents...
• Section 8815.
  (a) Once the revocable consent to adoption has become permanent as provided in Section 8814.5, the consent to the adoption by the prospective adoptive parents may...
• Section 8816.
  In an independent adoption where the consent of the birth parent or parents is not necessary, the department or delegated county adoption agency shall, before...
• Section 8817.
  (a) 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, shall be...
• Section 8818.
  (a) The department shall adopt a statement to be presented to the birth parents at the time the consent to adoption is signed and to prospective...
• Section 8819.
  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 8820.
  (a) The birth parent or parents or the petitioner may appeal in either of the following cases:(1) If for a period of 180 days from the date...
• Section 8821.
  When any report or findings are submitted to the court by the department or a delegated county adoption agency, a copy of the report or...
• Section 8822.
  (a) If the findings of the department or delegated county adoption agency are that the home of the petitioners is not suitable for the child or...
• Section 8823.
  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,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018