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2011 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code
DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES [10000 - 18996]
CHAPTER 1. Foster Care Placement
Section 16005
CA Welf & Inst Code § 16005 (through 2012 Leg Sess) What's This?
Siblings shall be assigned to the same social worker when there is a prospective adoptive family that intends to adopt the children as a sibling group, unless the responsible local agency finds that assigning the siblings to the same social worker would not be in the best interest of the child or the siblings or the operation of the county office.
(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 353, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2002.)
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