{"data":{"id":"us-ca/fam-8533","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"FAM § 8533","heading":"","body":"(a) “Noncustodial adoption agency” means any licensed entity engaged in the business of providing adoption services, which does all of the following:\n(1) Assesses the prospective adoptive parents.\n(2) Cooperatively matches children freed for adoption, who are under the care, custody, and control of a licensed adoption agency, for adoption, with assessed and approved prospective adoptive parents.\n(3) Cooperatively supervises adoptive placements with a full-service adoption agency, but does not disrupt a placement or remove a child from a placement.\n(4) Recruits prospective adoptive parents, locates children for an adoption, or acts as an intermediary between the parties to an adoption.\n(b) Private noncustodial adoption agencies shall be organized and operated on a nonprofit basis. As a condition of licensure to provide intercountry adoption services, a noncustodial adoption agency shall be accredited by the Council on Accreditation, or supervised by an accredited primary provider, or acting as an exempted provider, in compliance with Subpart F (commencing with Section 96.29) of Part 96 of Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations.","path":["Family Code - FAM","DIVISION 13. ADOPTION [8500. - 9340.]","PART 1. DEFINITIONS [8500. - 8548.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"b6849af14d87bd1a08a2f0894d435507a6459c786778377c324d15b6fd5a8493","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/fam-8530","next":"us-ca/fam-8539"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}