CODE OF VIRGINIA

COURT ISSUING ORDER DEEMED SENDING AGENCY UNDER INTERSTATE COMPACT ON PLACEMENT
OF CHILDREN (§ 63.2-1240)

When a petitioner moves outside the Commonwealth after the entry of an
interlocutory order of adoption but prior to the entry of a final order of
adoption and the child was not placed by a child-placing agency, the circuit
court issuing the interlocutory order shall be deemed the sending agency for the
purposes of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children authorized
pursuant to the provisions of § 63.2-1000.

HISTORY: 1978, c. 733, § 63.1-226.1; 2000, c. 830, § 63.1-219.47; 2002, c.
747.