63.2-1200 Who may place children for adoption
A child may be placed for adoption by: 1. A licensed child-placing agency; 2. A local board; 3. The child's parent or legal guardian if ...

63.2-1201 Filing of petition for adoption; venue; jurisdiction; and proceedings
Proceedings for the adoption of a minor child and for a change of name of such child shall be instituted only by petition to a ...

63.2-1201.1 Previously married persons who stood in loco parentis during the time of the marriage may adopt in ...
A. A man and woman previously married to each other who stood in loco parentis to a child during their marriage to each other, and ...

63.2-1202 Parental, or agency, consent required; exceptions
A. No petition for adoption shall be granted, except as hereinafter provided in this section, unless written consent to the proposed adoption is filed with ...

63.2-1203 When consent is withheld or unobtainable
A. If, after consideration of the evidence, the circuit court finds that the valid consent of any person or agency whose consent is required is ...

63.2-1204 When consent is revocable; fraud or duress; mutual consent
Parental consent to an adoption shall be revocable prior to the final order of adoption (i) upon proof of fraud or duress or (ii) after ...

63.2-1205 Best interests of the child; standards for determining
In determining whether the valid consent of any person whose consent is required is withheld contrary to the best interests of the child, or is ...

63.2-1205.1 Violent sex offenders prohibited from adopting a child
No petition for adoption shall be granted if the person seeking to adopt has been convicted of a sexually violent offense or an offense requiring ...

63.2-1206 No parental presumption after revocation period expires
If, after the expiration of the appropriate revocation period provided for in § 63.2-1223 or § 63.2-1234, a birth parent or an alleged birth parent ...

63.2-1207 Removal of child from adoptive home
When a child is placed in an adoptive home pursuant to an adoptive home placement agreement by a local board or by a licensed child-placing ...

63.2-1208 Investigations; report to circuit court
A. Upon consideration of the petition, the circuit court shall, upon being satisfied as to proper jurisdiction and venue, immediately enter an order referring the ...

63.2-1209 Entry of interlocutory order
If, after considering the home study or any required report, the circuit court is satisfied that all of the applicable requirements have been complied with, ...

63.2-1210 Probationary period, interlocutory order and order of reference not required under certain circumst...
The circuit court may omit the probationary period and the interlocutory order and enter a final order of adoption under the following circumstances: 1. If ...

63.2-1211 Revocation of interlocutory order
The circuit court may, by order entered of record, revoke its interlocutory order of adoption at any time prior to the entry of the final ...

63.2-1212 Visitations during probationary period and report
A. Except as hereinafter provided, after the entry of an interlocutory order of adoption, (i) the licensed or duly authorized child-placing agency; (ii) if the ...

63.2-1213 Final order of adoption
After consideration of the report made pursuant to § 63.2-1212 or as permitted pursuant to § 63.2-1210, if the circuit court is satisfied that the ...

63.2-1214 Annual review of pending petitions for adoption; duty of Commissioner and circuit court cler...
After the expiration of twelve months from the date of the entry of the last order upon a petition for adoption, except when the last ...

63.2-1215 Legal effects of adoption
The birth parents, and the parents by previous adoption, if any, other than any such parent who is the husband or wife of one of ...

63.2-1216 Final order not subject to attack after six months
After the expiration of six months from the date of entry of any final order of adoption from which no appeal has been taken to ...

63.2-1217 Provision of false information; penalty
Any person who knowingly and intentionally provides false information in writing and under oath, which is material to an adoptive placement shall be guilty of ...

63.2-1218 Certain exchange of property, advertisement, solicitation prohibited; penalty
No person or child-placing agency shall charge, pay, give, or agree to give or accept any money, property, service or other thing of value in ...

63.2-1219 Suspected violation of property exchange information
If the juvenile and domestic relations or circuit court or any participating licensed or duly authorized child-placing agency suspects that there has been a violation ...

63.2-1220 Issuance of birth certificates for children adopted in the Commonwealth and from foreign countrie...
A. For the purpose of securing a new birth certificate for an adopted child, the procedures set forth in § 32.1-262 shall be followed. B. ...

63.2-1220.1 Establishment of minimum training requirements
The Department shall, pursuant to Board regulations, establish minimum training requirements and shall provide educational programs for foster and adoption workers employed by the local ...

63.2-1221 Placement of children for adoption by agency or local board
A licensed child-placing agency or local board may place for adoption, and is empowered to consent to the adoption of, any child who is properly ...

63.2-1222 Execution of entrustment agreement by birth parent(s); exceptions; notice and objection to entrustm...
A. For the purposes of this section, a birth parent who is less than 18 years of age shall be deemed fully competent and shall ...

63.2-1223 Revocation of entrustment agreement
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63.2-1224 Counseling of birth parents required
Prior to the placement of a child for adoption, the licensed child-placing agency or local board having custody of the child shall counsel the birth ...

63.2-1225 Determination of appropriate home
A. In determining the appropriate home in which to place a child for adoption, a married couple or an unmarried individual shall be eligible to ...

63.2-1226 When birth parents recommend adoptive parents
When a licensed child-placing agency or a local board is requested to accept custody of a child for the purpose of placing the child with ...

63.2-1227 Filing of petition for agency adoption
A petition for the adoption of a child placed in the physical custody of the petitioners by a child-placing agency shall be filed in the ...

63.2-1228 Forwarding of petition
Upon the filing of the petition, the circuit court shall, upon being satisfied as to proper jurisdiction and venue, immediately enter an order referring the ...

63.2-1229 Foster parent adoption
When a foster parent who has a child placed in the foster parents' home by a licensed or duly authorized child-placing agency desires to adopt ...

63.2-1230 Placement of children by parent or guardian
The birth parent or legal guardian of a child may place his child for adoption directly with the adoptive parents of his choice. Consent to ...

63.2-1231 Home study; meeting required; exception
A. Prior to the consent hearing in the juvenile and domestic relations district court, a home study of the adoptive parent(s) shall be completed by ...

63.2-1232 Requirements of a parental placement adoption
A. The juvenile and domestic relations district court shall not accept consent until it determines that: 1. The birth parent(s) are aware of alternatives to ...

63.2-1233 Consent to be executed in juvenile and domestic relations district court; exceptions
When the juvenile and domestic relations district court is satisfied that all requirements of § 63.2-1232 have been met with respect to at least one ...

63.2-1234 When consent is revocable
Consent shall be revocable as follows: 1. By either consenting birth parent for any reason for up to seven days from its execution; however, such ...

63.2-1235 Adoptive home not in child's best interests
If the juvenile and domestic relations district court determines from the information provided to it that placement in the prospective adoptive home will be contrary ...

63.2-1236 Duty of Department to disseminate information
The Department shall develop and disseminate information to the public regarding the provisions of parental placement adoptions, including the desirability of initiating the procedures required ...

63.2-1237 Petition for parental placement adoption; jurisdiction; contents
Proceedings for the parental placement adoption of a minor child and for a change of name of such child shall be instituted only by petition ...

63.2-1238 Forwarding of petition; when investigation and report not required
A. Upon the filing of the petition, the circuit court shall forward a copy of the petition and all exhibits thereto to the Commissioner and ...

63.2-1239 Return of copies furnished to counsel
Any copy of the report required by § 63.2-1208 to be furnished to counsel of record representing the adopting parent or parents shall, upon the ...

63.2-1240 Court issuing order deemed sending agency under Interstate Compact on Placement of Childre...
When a petitioner moves outside the Commonwealth after the entry of an interlocutory order of adoption but prior to the entry of a final order ...

63.2-1241 Adoption of child by new spouse of birth or adoptive parent
A. When the spouse of a birth parent of a child born in wedlock or the spouse of a parent by adoption of the child ...

63.2-1242 Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court
For adoptions under this article, an investigation and report shall be undertaken only if the circuit court in its discretion determines that there should be ...

63.2-1242.1 Close relative adoption
A. For the purposes of this chapter, a "close relative placement" shall be an adoption by the child's grandparent, great-grandparent, adult nephew or niece, adult ...

63.2-1242.2 Close relative adoption; child in home less than three years
A. When the child has continuously resided in the home or has been in the continuous physical custody of the prospective adoptive parent(s) who is ...

63.2-1242.3 Close relative placement; child in home for three years or more
When the child has continuously resided in the home or has been in the continuous physical custody of the prospective adoptive parent(s) who is a ...

63.2-1243 Adoption of certain persons eighteen years of age or over
A petition may be filed in circuit court by any natural person who is a resident of this Commonwealth (i) for the adoption of a ...

63.2-1244 Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court; exception
For adoptions under this article, an investigation and report shall not be made unless the circuit court in its discretion so requires. However, if a ...

63.2-1245 Separate order book, file and index of adoption cases; to whom available; permanent retentio...
Each circuit court clerk shall establish and maintain a separate and exclusive order book, file and index of adoption cases, none of which shall be ...

63.2-1246 Disposition of reports; disclosure of information as to identity of birth family
Upon the entry of a final order of adoption or other final disposition of the matter, the clerk of the circuit court in which it ...

63.2-1247 Disclosure to birth family; adoptive parents; medical, etc., information; exchange of information; ...
A. Where the adoption is finalized on or after July 1, 1994, and the adopted person is twenty-one years of age or over, the adopted ...

63.2-1248 Fees for home studies, investigations, visitations and reports
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 17.1-275, the circuit court with jurisdiction over any adoption matter, or the person, agency, or child-placing agency that attempts to ...

63.2-1249 Establishment of Registry
A. A Putative Father Registry is hereby established in the Department of Social Services. B. There is hereby created in the state treasury a special ...

63.2-1250 Registration; notice; form
A. Except as otherwise provided in subsection C, a man who desires to be notified of a proceeding for adoption of, or termination of parental ...

63.2-1251 Furnishing information; confidentiality; penalty
A. The Department is not required to locate the mother of a child who is the subject of a registration, but the Department shall send ...

63.2-1252 Search of registry
A. If no father-child relationship has been established pursuant to § 20-49.1, a petitioner for adoption shall obtain from the Department a certificate that a ...

63.2-1253 Duty to publicize registry
A. The Department shall produce and distribute a pamphlet or other publication informing the public about the Putative Father Registry including (i) the procedures for ...

Code of Virginia - Title 63.2 Welfare (Social Services) - Chapter 12 Adoption

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