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- Va. Code § 63.2-1204 · When consent is revocable; fraud or duress; mutual consent
- Va. Code § 63.2-1205 · Best interests of the child; standards for determining
- Va. Code § 63.2-1205.1 · Certain offenders prohibited from adopting a child
- Va. Code § 63.2-1206 · No parental presumption after revocation period expires
- Va. Code § 63.2-1207 · Removal of child from adoptive home
- Va. Code § 63.2-1208 · Investigations; report to circuit court
- Va. Code § 63.2-1209 · Entry of interlocutory order
- Va. Code § 63.2-1210 · Probationary period, interlocutory order and order of reference not required under certain circumstances
- Va. Code § 63.2-1211 · Revocation of interlocutory order
- Va. Code § 63.2-1212 · Visitations during probationary period and report
- Va. Code § 63.2-1213 · Final order of adoption
- Va. Code § 63.2-1214 · Annual review of pending petitions for adoption; duty of Commissioner and circuit court clerk
- Va. Code § 63.2-1215 · Legal effects of adoption
- Va. Code § 63.2-1216 · Final order not subject to attack after six months
- Va. Code § 63.2-1217 · Provision of false information; penalty
- Va. Code § 63.2-1218 · Certain exchange of property, advertisement, solicitation prohibited; penalty
- Va. Code § 63.2-1219 · Suspected violation of property exchange information
- Va. Code § 63.2-1220 · Issuance of birth certificates for children adopted in the Commonwealth
- Va. Code § 63.2-1220.01 · Foreign adoptions; establishment of date of birth
- Va. Code § 63.2-1220.1 · Establishment of minimum training requirements
- Va. Code § 63.2-1220.2 · Authority to enter into post-adoption contact and communication agreements
- Va. Code § 63.2-1220.3 · Approval of post-adoption contact and communication agreements
- Va. Code § 63.2-1220.4 · Jurisdiction to approve post-adoption contact and communication agreements
- Va. Code § 63.2-1221 · Placement of children for adoption by agency or local board
- Va. Code § 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
- Va. Code § 63.2-1223 · Revocation of entrustment agreement
- Va. Code § 63.2-1224 · Explanation of process, legal effects of adoption required
- Va. Code § 63.2-1225 · Determination of appropriate home
- Va. Code § 63.2-1226 · When birth parents recommend adoptive parents
- Va. Code § 63.2-1227 · Filing of petition for agency adoption
- Va. Code § 63.2-1228 · Forwarding of petition
- Va. Code § 63.2-1228.1 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 63.2-1229 · Foster parent adoption
- Va. Code § 63.2-1230 · Placement of children by parent or guardian
- Va. Code § 63.2-1231 · Home study; meeting required; exception
- Va. Code § 63.2-1232 · Requirements of a parental placement adoption; exception
- Va. Code § 63.2-1233 · Consent to be executed in juvenile and domestic relations district court; exceptions
- Va. Code § 63.2-1234 · When consent is revocable
- Va. Code § 63.2-1235 · Adoptive home not in child's best interests
- Va. Code § 63.2-1236 · Duty of Department to disseminate information
- Va. Code § 63.2-1237 · Petition for parental placement adoption; jurisdiction; contents
- Va. Code § 63.2-1238 · Forwarding of petition; when investigation and report not required
- Va. Code § 63.2-1239 · Return of copies furnished to counsel
- Va. Code § 63.2-1240 · Court issuing order deemed sending agency under Interstate Compact on Placement of Children
- Va. Code § 63.2-1241 · Adoption of child by spouse of birth or adoptive parent or other person with legitimate interest
- Va. Code § 63.2-1242 · Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court
- Va. Code § 63.2-1242.1 · Relative adoption
- Va. Code § 63.2-1242.2 · Close relative adoption; child in home less than two years
- Va. Code § 63.2-1242.3 · Close relative placement; child in home for two years or more
- Va. Code § 63.2-1243 · Adoption of certain persons eighteen years of age or over
- Va. Code § 63.2-1244 · Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court; exception
- Va. Code § 63.2-1245 · Separate order book, file and index of adoption cases; to whom available; permanent retention
- Va. Code § 63.2-1246 · Disposition of reports; disclosure of information as to identity of birth family
- Va. Code § 63.2-1246.1 · Commissioner authority to store, preserve, and certify adoption files
- Va. Code § 63.2-1247 · Disclosure to birth family; adoptive parents; medical, etc., information; exchange of information; open records in parental placement adoptions
- Va. Code § 63.2-1248 · Fees for home studies, investigations, visitations and reports
- Va. Code § 63.2-1249 · Establishment of Registry
- Va. Code § 63.2-1250 · Registration; notice; form
- Va. Code § 63.2-1251 · Furnishing information; confidentiality; penalty
- Va. Code § 63.2-1252 · Search of registry
- Va. Code § 63.2-1253 · Duty to publicize registry
- Va. Code § 63.2-1300 · Purpose and intent of adoption assistance; eligibility
- Va. Code § 63.2-1301 · Types of adoption assistance payments
- Va. Code § 63.2-1302 · Adoption assistance payments; maintenance; special needs; payment agreements; continuation of payments when adoptive parents move to another jurisdiction; procedural requirements
- Va. Code § 63.2-1303 · Application for adoption assistance payments
- Va. Code § 63.2-1304 · Appeal to Commissioner regarding adoption assistance
- Va. Code § 63.2-1305 · Federal-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program
- Va. Code § 63.2-1306 · State-Funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance program
- Va. Code § 63.2-1400 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 63.2-1401 · Compacts authorized
- Va. Code § 63.2-1402 · Definitions
- Va. Code § 63.2-1403 · Contents of compacts
- Va. Code § 63.2-1404 · Medical assistance; penalties
- Va. Code § 63.2-1405 · Federal participation
- Va. Code § 63.2-1500 · Repealed
- Va. Code § 63.2-1501 · Definitions
- Va. Code § 63.2-1502 · Establishment of Child-Protective Services Unit; duties
- Va. Code § 63.2-1503 · Local departments to establish child-protective services; duties
- Va. Code § 63.2-1504 · Child-protective services differential response system
- Va. Code § 63.2-1505 · Investigations by local departments
- Va. Code § 63.2-1506 · Family assessments by local departments
- Va. Code § 63.2-1506.1 · Human trafficking assessments by local departments
- Va. Code § 63.2-1507 · Cooperation by state entities
- Va. Code § 63.2-1508 · Valid report or complaint
- Va. Code § 63.2-1509 · Requirement that certain injuries to children be reported by physicians, nurses, teachers, etc.; penalty for failure to report
- Va. Code § 63.2-1510 · Complaints by others of certain injuries to children
- Va. Code § 63.2-1511 · Complaints of abuse and neglect against school personnel; interagency agreement
- Va. Code § 63.2-1512 · Immunity of person making report, etc., from liability
- Va. Code § 63.2-1513 · Knowingly making false reports; penalties
- Va. Code § 63.2-1514 · Retention of records in all reports; procedures regarding unfounded reports alleged to be made in bad faith or with malicious intent
- Va. Code § 63.2-1515 · Central registry; disclosure of information
- Va. Code § 63.2-1516 · Tape recording child abuse investigations
- Va. Code § 63.2-1516.01 · Investigation procedures involving person who is the subject of complaint
- Va. Code § 63.2-1516.1 · Investigation procedures when school employee is subject of the complaint or report; release of information in joint investigations
- Va. Code § 63.2-1517 · Authority to take child into custody
- Va. Code § 63.2-1518 · Authority to talk to child or sibling
- Va. Code § 63.2-1519 · Physician-patient and spousal privileges inapplicable
- Va. Code § 63.2-1520 · Photographs and X-rays of child; use as evidence
- Va. Code § 63.2-1521 · Testimony by child using two-way closed-circuit television
- Va. Code § 63.2-1522 · Admission of evidence of sexual acts with children