199.5952 Contents of interstate compacts.
A compact entered into pursuant to the authority conferred by KRS 199.595 to 199.5955
shall have the following content:
(1) A provision making it available for joinder by all states;
(2) A provision or provisions for withdrawal from the compact upon written notice to
the parties, but with a period of one (1) year between the date of the notice and the
effective date of the withdrawal;
(3) A requirement that the protections afforded by or pursuant to the compact continue
in force for the duration of the adoption assistance and be applicable to all children
and their adoptive parents who on the effective date of the withdrawal are receiving
adoption assistance from a party state other than the one in which they are resident
and have their principal place of abode;
(4) A requirement that each instance of adoption assistance to which the compact
applies be covered by an adoption assistance agreement in writing between the
adoptive parents and the state child welfare agency of the state which undertakes to
provide the adoption assistance, and further, that any such agreement be expressly
for the benefit of the adopted child and enforceable by the adoptive parents, and the
state agency providing the adoption assistance; and
(5) Such other provisions as may be appropriate to implement the proper administration
of the compact.
Effective: July 15, 1986
History: Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1986.
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