Article 1 General Provisions
This article is comprised of the following 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 Certain 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