CODE OF VIRGINIA

FINAL ORDER OF ADOPTION (§ 63.2-1213)

After consideration of the report made pursuant to § 63.2-1212 or as permitted
pursuant to § 63.2-1210, if the circuit court is satisfied that the best
interests of the child will be served thereby, the circuit court shall enter the
final order of adoption. However, a final order of adoption shall not be entered
until information has been furnished by the petitioner in compliance with §
32.1-262 unless the circuit court, for good cause shown, finds the information
to be unavailable or unnecessary. No circuit court shall deny a petitioner a
final order of adoption for the sole reason that the child was placed in the
physical custody of the petitioner by a person not authorized to make such
placements pursuant to § 63.2-1200. An attested copy of every final order of
adoption shall be forwarded, by the clerk of the circuit court in which it was
entered, to the Commissioner and to the child-placing agency that placed the
child or to the local director, in cases where the child was not placed by an
agency.

HISTORY: Code 1950, § 63-356; 1962, c. 603; 1964, c. 429; 1968, c. 578, §
63.1-230; 1975, c. 364; 1981, c. 318; 1988, c. 431; 2000, c. 830, §
63.1-219.20; 2002, c. 747; 2006, cc. 825, 848; 2007, cc. 606, 623.