General Provisions
This is Article 1 of the Code of Virginia, titled “General Provisions.” It is part of Title 63.2, titled “Welfare (social Services).” It is part of Subtitle III, titled “Social Services Programs.” It is part of Chapter 12, titled “Adoption.” It’s comprised of the following 26 sections.
- § 63.2-1200
- Who may place children for adoption
- § 63.2-1200.1
- Recognition of foreign adoption; issuance of birth certificates
- § 63.2-1201
- Filing of petition for adoption; venue; jurisdiction; and proceedings
- § 63.2-1201.1
- Previously married persons who stood in loco parentis during the time of the marriage may adopt in the same manner as married persons
- § 63.2-1202
- Parental, or agency, consent required; exceptions
- § 63.2-1203
- When consent is withheld or unobtainable
- § 63.2-1204
- When consent is revocable; fraud or duress; mutual consent
- § 63.2-1205
- Best interests of the child; standards for determining
- § 63.2-1205.1
- Violent sex offenders prohibited from adopting a child
- § 63.2-1206
- No parental presumption after revocation period expires
- § 63.2-1207
- Removal of child from adoptive home
- § 63.2-1208
- Investigations; report to circuit court
- § 63.2-1209
- Entry of interlocutory order
- § 63.2-1210
- Probationary period, interlocutory order and order of reference not required under certain circumstances
- § 63.2-1211
- Revocation of interlocutory order
- § 63.2-1212
- Visitations during probationary period and report
- § 63.2-1213
- Final order of adoption
- § 63.2-1214
- Annual review of pending petitions for adoption; duty of Commissioner and circuit court clerk
- § 63.2-1215
- Legal effects of adoption
- § 63.2-1216
- Final order not subject to attack after six months
- § 63.2-1217
- Provision of false information; penalty
- § 63.2-1218
- Certain exchange of property, advertisement, solicitation prohibited; penalty
- § 63.2-1219
- Suspected violation of property exchange information
- § 63.2-1220
- Issuance of birth certificates for children adopted in the Commonwealth
- § 63.2-1220.01
- Foreign adoptions; establishment of date of birth
- § 63.2-1220.1
- Establishment of minimum training requirements