Adoption

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Section
63.2-1200

Who may place children for adoption

Section
63.2-1200.1

Recognition of foreign adoption; issuance of birth certificates

Section
63.2-1201

Filing of petition for adoption; venue; jurisdiction; and proceedings

Section
63.2-1201.1

Previously married persons who stood in loco parentis during the time of the marriage may adopt in the same manner as married persons

Section
63.2-1202

Parental, or agency, consent required; exceptions

Section
63.2-1203

When consent is withheld or unobtainable

Section
63.2-1204

When consent is revocable; fraud or duress; mutual consent

Section
63.2-1205

Best interests of the child; standards for determining

Section
63.2-1205.1

Certain offenders prohibited from adopting a child

Section
63.2-1206

No parental presumption after revocation period expires

Section
63.2-1207

Removal of child from adoptive home

Section
63.2-1208

Investigations; report to circuit court

Section
63.2-1209

Entry of interlocutory order

Section
63.2-1210

Probationary period, interlocutory order and order of reference not required under certain circumstances

Section
63.2-1211

Revocation of interlocutory order

Section
63.2-1212

Visitations during probationary period and report

Section
63.2-1213

Final order of adoption

Section
63.2-1214

Annual review of pending petitions for adoption; duty of Commissioner and circuit court clerk

Section
63.2-1215

Legal effects of adoption

Section
63.2-1216

Final order not subject to attack after six months

Section
63.2-1217

Provision of false information; penalty

Section
63.2-1218

Certain exchange of property, advertisement, solicitation prohibited; penalty

Section
63.2-1219

Suspected violation of property exchange information

Section
63.2-1220

Issuance of birth certificates for children adopted in the Commonwealth

Section
63.2-1220.01

Foreign adoptions; establishment of date of birth

Section
63.2-1220.1

Establishment of minimum training requirements

Section
63.2-1220.2

Authority to enter into post-adoption contact and communication agreements

Section
63.2-1220.3

Approval of post-adoption contact and communication agreements

Section
63.2-1220.4

Jurisdiction to approve post-adoption contact and communication agreements

Section
63.2-1221

Placement of children for adoption by agency or local board

Section
63.2-1222

Execution of entrustment agreement by birth parent(s); exceptions; notice and objection to entrustment; copy required to be furnished; requirement for agencies outside the Commonwealth

Section
63.2-1223

Revocation of entrustment agreement

Section
63.2-1224

Explanation of process, legal effects of adoption required

Section
63.2-1225

Determination of appropriate home

Section
63.2-1226

When birth parents recommend adoptive parents

Section
63.2-1227

Filing of petition for agency adoption

Section
63.2-1228

Forwarding of petition

Section
63.2-1228.1

Repealed

Section
63.2-1229

Foster parent adoption

Section
63.2-1230

Placement of children by parent or guardian

Section
63.2-1231

Home study; meeting required; exception

Section
63.2-1232

Requirements of a parental placement adoption; exception

Section
63.2-1233

Consent to be executed in juvenile and domestic relations district court; exceptions

Section
63.2-1234

When consent is revocable

Section
63.2-1235

Adoptive home not in child's best interests

Section
63.2-1236

Duty of Department to disseminate information

Section
63.2-1237

Petition for parental placement adoption; jurisdiction; contents

Section
63.2-1238

Forwarding of petition; when investigation and report not required

Section
63.2-1239

Return of copies furnished to counsel

Section
63.2-1240

Court issuing order deemed sending agency under Interstate Compact on Placement of Children

Section
63.2-1241

Adoption of child by spouse of birth or adoptive parent or other person with legitimate interest

Section
63.2-1242

Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court

Section
63.2-1242.1

Relative adoption

Section
63.2-1242.2

Close relative adoption; child in home less than two years

Section
63.2-1242.3

Close relative placement; child in home for two years or more

Section
63.2-1243

Adoption of certain persons eighteen years of age or over

Section
63.2-1244

Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court; exception

Section
63.2-1245

Separate order book, file and index of adoption cases; to whom available; permanent retention

Section
63.2-1246

Disposition of reports; disclosure of information as to identity of birth family

Section
63.2-1246.1

Commissioner authority to store, preserve, and certify adoption files

Section
63.2-1247

Disclosure to birth family; adoptive parents; medical, etc., information; exchange of information; open records in parental placement adoptions

Section
63.2-1248

Fees for home studies, investigations, visitations and reports

Section
63.2-1249

Establishment of Registry

Section
63.2-1250

Registration; notice; form

Section
63.2-1251

Furnishing information; confidentiality; penalty

Section
63.2-1252

Search of registry

Section
63.2-1253

Duty to publicize registry