Chapter 12 - Adoption
- § 63.2-1200. Who may place children for adoption
- § 63.2-1200.1. Recognition of foreign adoption; issuance of birth certificates
- § 63.2-1201. Filing of petition for adoption; venue; jurisdiction; and proceedings
- § 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
- § 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 circumstances
- § 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 clerk
- § 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
- § 63.2-1220.01. Foreign adoptions; establishment of date of birth
- § 63.2-1220.1. Establishment of minimum training requirements
- § 63.2-1220.2. Authority to enter into post-adoption contact and communication agreements
- § 63.2-1220.3. Approval of post-adoption contact and communication agreements
- § 63.2-1220.4. Jurisdiction to approve post-adoption contact and communication agreements
- § 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 entrustment; copy required to be furnished; requirement for agencies outside the Commonwealth
- § 63.2-1223. Revocation of entrustment agreement
- § 63.2-1224. Explanation of process, legal effects of adoption 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
- § 63.2-1228.1. Repealed
- § 63.2-1229. Foster parent adoption
- § 63.2-1230. Placement of children by parent or guardian
- § 63.2-1231. Home study; meeting required; exception
- § 63.2-1232. Requirements of a parental placement adoption; exception
- § 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 Children
- § 63.2-1241. Adoption of child by spouse of birth or adoptive parent
- § 63.2-1242. (Effective until July 1, 2020) Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court
- § 63.2-1242. (Effective July 1, 2020) Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court
- § 63.2-1242.1. Relative adoption
- § 63.2-1242.2. Close relative adoption; child in home less than two years
- § 63.2-1242.3. Close relative placement; child in home for two 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 retention
- § 63.2-1246. Disposition of reports; disclosure of information as to identity of birth family
- § 63.2-1246.1. Commissioner authority to store, preserve, and certify adoption files
- § 63.2-1247. Disclosure to birth family; adoptive parents; medical, etc., information; exchange of information; open records in parental placement adoptions
- § 63.2-1248. Fees for home studies, investigations, visitations and reports
- § 63.2-1249. Establishment of Registry
- § 63.2-1250. Registration; notice; form
- § 63.2-1251. Furnishing information; confidentiality; penalty
- § 63.2-1252. Search of registry
- § 63.2-1253. Duty to publicize registry
