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2025 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 948 - Crimes against children.
948.25 - Unauthorized interstate placements of children.
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WI Stat § 948.25 (2025)
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948.25 Unauthorized interstate placements of children.
(1) Any person who sends a child out of this state, brings a child into this state, or causes a child to be sent out of this state or brought into this state for the purpose of permanently transferring physical custody of the child to a person who is not a relative, as defined in s. 48.02 (15), of the child is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following:
(a) A placement of a child that is authorized under s. 48.98, 48.988, or 48.99.
(b) A placement of a child that is approved by a court of competent jurisdiction of the sending state or receiving state.
History: 2013 a. 314.
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