                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REMOVAL OF CHILD FROM ADOPTIVE HOME (§ 63.2-1207)

When a child is placed in an adoptive home pursuant to an adoptive home
placement agreement by a local board or by a licensed child-placing agency
pursuant to § 63.2-1221, or by the birth parent or legal guardian of the child
pursuant to § 63.2-1230, and a circuit court of competent jurisdiction has not
entered an interlocutory order of adoption, such child shall not be removed from
the physical custody of the adoptive parents, except (i) with the consent of the
adoptive parents; (ii) upon order of the juvenile and domestic relations
district court or the circuit court of competent jurisdiction; (iii) pursuant to
§ 63.2-904, which removal shall be subject to review by the juvenile and
domestic relations district court upon petition of the adoptive parents; or (iv)
upon order of the juvenile and domestic relations district court that accepted
consent when consent has been revoked as authorized by § 63.2-1204 or §
63.2-1223.
		When a child has been placed in an adoptive home directly by the birth parents
or legal guardian of the child, the adoptive parents have been granted custody
of the child pursuant to § 63.2-1233, and it becomes necessary to remove the
child from the home of the adoptive parents, the juvenile and domestic relations
district court entering such an order shall order that any consent given for the
purposes of such placement shall be void and shall determine the custody of the
child.

HISTORY: 1989, c. 647, § 63.1-220.5; 1995, cc. 772, 826; 2000, c. 830, §
63.1-219.15; 2002, c. 747.