Chapter 2 - AGENCY ADOPTIONS

Section 8700 - Generally
Section 8700.5 - Waiver of right to revoke relinquishment
Section 8701 - Notice to birth parent signing relinquishment of right to request information
Section 8702 - Statement presented to birth parents at time of relinquishment and prospective adoptive parents
Section 8703 - Notice by agency responsible for adoptive placement when parental rights of birth parent terminated
Section 8704 - Agency responsible for care and entitled to custody and control; termination of placement for temporary care; adoption petition; removal of child from prospective adoptive parents; refusal by agency to consent to adoption
Section 8704.5 - Placement of nondependent child
Section 8705 - Person whose consent to adoption required by law deceased
Section 8706 - Child's and biological parents medical background reports; blood samples provided by biological parents
Section 8707 - Statewide photo-listing service for recruiting adoptive parents
Section 8707.1 - Individuals recruited to reflect ethnic, racial and cultural diversity of children
Section 8708 - Prohibited acts by adoption agency
Section 8709 - Child's religious background
Section 8710 - Placement preferences
Section 8710.1 - Registration of child with exchange system
Section 8710.2 - Statewide exchange system that interjurisdictionally matches waiting children and approved adoptive parents
Section 8710.3 - Registration of family appropriate for placement of child adjudged dependent child
Section 8710.4 - information in exchange system accessible to adoption agencies; confidentiality of exchange information
Section 8711 - Applicability of sections 8708 to 8710.4
Section 8711.5 - Regulations to administer sections 8708 to 8710.4
Section 8712 - Fingerprinting and criminal background check of person filing applications for adoption
Section 8713 - Removal of child from county in which child placed; concealment of child
Section 8714 - Petition to adopt
Section 8714.5 - Petition to adopt filed by relative
Section 8714.7 - [Renumbered]
Section 8715 - Report of facts of case submitted by agency to court
Section 8716 - Fee paid agency by petitioners
Section 8717 - Report or findings given to petitioner's attorney
Section 8718 - Appearance required by prospective parents and child
Section 8719 - Department notified if petitioners move to withdraw petition or dismiss proceeding
Section 8720 - Referral to court for review