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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78297</law_id><section_number>63.2-1240</section_number><catch_line>Court issuing order deemed sending agency under Interstate Compact on Placement of Children</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="63.2">Welfare (Social Services)</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Social Services Programs</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="12">Adoption</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Parental Placement Adoptions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>When a petitioner moves outside the Commonwealth after the entry of an <span class="dictionary">interlocutory order</span> of adoption but prior to the entry of a <span class="dictionary">final order</span> of adoption and the <span class="dictionary">child</span> was not placed by a <span class="dictionary"><span class="dictionary">child</span>-placing agency</span>, the <span class="dictionary">circuit</span> <span class="dictionary">court</span> issuing the <span class="dictionary">interlocutory order</span> shall be deemed the sending agency for the purposes of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children authorized pursuant to the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; form of compact" href="/63.2-1000/">63.2-1000</a>.</p></section></text><history>1978, c. 733, &#xA7; 63.1-226.1; 2000, c. 830, &#xA7; 63.1-219.47; 2002, c. 747.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
