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2006 Code of Virginia - Chapter 12 - Adoption
- 63.2-1200 - Who may place children for adoption
- 63.2-1201 - Filing of petition for adoption; venue; jurisdiction; and proceedings
- 63.2-1202 - Parental, or agency, consent required; exceptions
- 63.2-1203 - When consent is withheld or unobtainable
- 63.2-1204 - When consent is revocable; fraud or duress; mutual consent
- 63.2-1205 - Best interests of the child; standards for determining
- 63.2-1205.1 - Violent sex offenders prohibited from adopting a child
- 63.2-1206 - No parental presumption after revocation period expires
- 63.2-1207 - Removal of child from adoptive home
- 63.2-1208 - Investigations; report to circuit court
- 63.2-1209 - Entry of interlocutory order
- 63.2-1210 - Probationary period, interlocutory order and order of reference not required under certain circumst...
- 63.2-1211 - Revocation of interlocutory order
- 63.2-1212 - Visitations during probationary period and report
- 63.2-1213 - Final order of adoption
- 63.2-1214 - Annual review of pending petitions for adoption; duty of Commissioner and circuit court cler...
- 63.2-1215 - Legal effects of adoption
- 63.2-1216 - Final order not subject to attack after six months
- 63.2-1217 - Provision of false information; penalty
- 63.2-1218 - Certain exchange of property, advertisement, solicitation prohibited; penalty
- 63.2-1219 - Suspected violation of property exchange information
- 63.2-1220 - Issuance of birth certificates for children adopted in the Commonwealth and from foreign countrie...
- 63.2-1221 - Placement of children for adoption by agency or local board
- 63.2-1222 - Execution of entrustment agreement by birth parent(s); exceptions; notice and objection to entrustm...
- 63.2-1223 - Revocation of entrustment agreement
- 63.2-1224 - Counseling of birth parents required
- 63.2-1225 - Determination of appropriate home
- 63.2-1226 - When birth parents recommend adoptive parents
- 63.2-1227 - Filing of petition for agency adoption
- 63.2-1228 - Forwarding of petition
- 63.2-1229 - Foster parent adoption
- 63.2-1230 - Placement of children by parent or guardian
- 63.2-1231 - Home study; simultaneous meeting required; exception
- 63.2-1232 - Requirements of a parental placement adoption
- 63.2-1233 - Consent to be executed in juvenile and domestic relations district court; exceptions
- 63.2-1234 - When consent is revocable
- 63.2-1235 - Adoptive home not in child's best interests
- 63.2-1236 - Duty of Department to disseminate information
- 63.2-1237 - Petition for parental placement adoption; jurisdiction; contents
- 63.2-1238 - Forwarding of petition; when investigation and report not required
- 63.2-1239 - Return of copies furnished to counsel
- 63.2-1240 - Court issuing order deemed sending agency under Interstate Compact on Placement of Childre...
- 63.2-1241 - Adoption of child by new spouse of birth or adoptive parent
- 63.2-1242 - Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court
- 63.2-1242.1 - Close relative adoption
- 63.2-1242.2 - Close relative adoption; child in home less than three years
- 63.2-1242.3 - Close relative placement; child in home for three years or more
- 63.2-1243 - Adoption of certain persons eighteen years of age or over
- 63.2-1244 - Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court; exception
- 63.2-1245 - Separate order book, file and index of adoption cases; to whom available; permanent retentio...
- 63.2-1246 - Disposition of reports; disclosure of information as to identity of birth family
- 63.2-1247 - Disclosure to birth family; adoptive parents; medical, etc., information; exchange of information; ...
- 63.2-1248 - Fees for home studies, investigations, visitations and reports
- 63.2-1249 - (Effective July 1, 2007) Establishment of Registry
- 63.2-1250 - (Effective July 1, 2007) Registration; notice; form
- 63.2-1251 - (Effective July 1, 2007) Furnishing information; confidentiality; penalty
- 63.2-1252 - (Effective July 1, 2007) Search of registry
- 63.2-1253 - (Effective July 1, 2007) Duty to publicize registry
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