California Family Code CHAPTER 4 - Intercountry Adoptions

• Section 8900.
  (a) Intercountry adoption services described in this chapter shall be exclusively provided by private adoption agencies licensed by the department specifically to provide these services. As...
• Section 8900.5.
  As used in this chapter:(a) “Accredited agency” means an agency that has been accredited by an accrediting entity, in accordance with the standards in Subpart F...
• Section 8901.
  The department shall adopt regulations to administer the intercountry adoption program.(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)
• Section 8902.
  For intercountry adoptions that will be finalized in this state, the licensed adoption agency shall provide all of the following services:(a) Assessment of the suitability of...
• Section 8903.
  (a) For each intercountry adoption finalized in this state, the licensed adoption agency shall assume all responsibilities for the child including care, custody, and control as...
• Section 8904.
  For an intercountry adoption that will be finalized in a foreign country, the licensed adoption agency shall provide all of the following services:(a) Assessment of the...
• Section 8905.
  Licensed adoption agencies may work only with domestic and foreign adoption agencies with whom they have written agreements that specify the responsibilities of each. The...
• Section 8906.
  Nothing in this chapter may be construed to prohibit the licensed adoption agency from entering into an agreement with the prospective adoptive parents to share...
• Section 8907.
  The costs incurred by a licensed adoption agency pursuant to programs established by this chapter shall be funded by fees charged by the agency for...
• Section 8908.
  (a) A licensed adoption agency shall require each person filing an application for adoption to be fingerprinted and shall secure from an appropriate law enforcement agency...
• Section 8909.
  (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 8910.
  (a) In no event may a child who has been placed for adoption be removed from the county in which the child was placed, by any...
• Section 8911.
  As a condition of placement, the prospective adoptive parents shall file a petition to adopt the child under Section 8912 within 30 days of placement.(Enacted...
• Section 8912.
  (a) An international adoption or readoption request may be filed by a resident of this state in a county authorized by Section 8609.5. The court clerk...
• Section 8913.
  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 8914.
  If the licensed adoption agency is a party to or joins in the adoption petition, it shall submit a full report of the facts of...
• Section 8915.
  When any report or findings are submitted to the court by a licensed adoption agency, a copy of the report or findings, whether favorable or...
• Section 8916.
  (a) 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 8917.
  (a) If the licensed adoption agency finds that the home of the petitioners is not suitable for the child or that the required agency consents are...
• Section 8918.
  At the hearing, if the court sustains the recommendation that the child be removed from the home of the petitioners because the licensed adoption agency...
• Section 8919.
  (a) Each state resident who adopts a child through an intercountry adoption that is finalized in a foreign country shall readopt the child in this state...
• Section 8920.
  (a) A child who was adopted as part of a sibling group and who has been separated from his or her sibling or siblings through readoption...
• Section 8921.
  An adoption facilitator shall not offer, provide, or facilitate any adoption service, as described in this chapter, in connection with a convention adoption unless it...
• Section 8923.
  (a) A complaint against an accredited agency or approved person in connection with a convention adoption shall be filed according to the procedures set forth in...
• Section 8924.
  (a) For cases in which a child is emigrating from California to a convention country, an accredited agency or approved person providing any adoption service described...
• Section 8925.
  A Hague adoption certificate or, in outgoing cases, a Hague custody declaration, obtained pursuant to Part 97 of Title 22 of the Code of Federal...

Last modified: October 22, 2018