§ 63.2-1301. Subsidy payments; when adoptive parents, etc., eligible
Subsidy payments shall be made to the adoptive parents and other persons on behalf of a child in the custody of the local board or in the custody of a licensed child-placing agency and placed for adoption, pursuant to this chapter, if it is determined that:
1. The child is a child with special needs; and
2. The adoptive parents are capable of providing the permanent family relationships needed by the child in all respects except financial.
Such subsidy payments shall be made, however, only after a reasonable but unsuccessful effort has been made to place the child with appropriate adoptive parents without the provision of adoption assistance pursuant to this chapter except in cases where the child has developed significant emotional ties with the prospective adoptive parents while in the care of such parents as a foster child.
(1974, c. 507, § 63.1-238.2; 1982, c. 171; 1983, c. 292; 1987, cc. 650, 681; 2002, c. 747.)
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