Virginia — Title 63.2 · Chapter 12

• § 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
• § 63.2-1220.2 — Authority to enter into post-adoption contact and communication agreements
• § 63.2-1220.3 — Approval of post-adoption contact and communication agreements
• § 63.2-1220.4 — Jurisdiction to approve post-adoption contact and communication agreements
• § 63.2-1221 — Placement of children for adoption by agency or local board
• § 63.2-1222 — Execution of entrustment agreement by birth parent(s); exceptions; notice and objection to entrustment; copy required to be furnished; requirement for agencies outside the Commonwealth
• § 63.2-1223 — Revocation of entrustment agreement
• § 63.2-1224 — Explanation of process, legal effects of adoption required
• § 63.2-1225 — Determination of appropriate home
• § 63.2-1226 — When birth parents recommend adoptive parents
• § 63.2-1227 — Filing of petition for agency adoption
• § 63.2-1228 — Forwarding of petition
• § 63.2-1229 — Foster parent adoption
• § 63.2-1230 — Placement of children by parent or guardian
• § 63.2-1231 — Home study; meeting required; exception
• § 63.2-1232 — Requirements of a parental placement adoption; exception
• § 63.2-1233 — Consent to be executed in juvenile and domestic relations district court; exceptions
• § 63.2-1234 — When consent is revocable
• § 63.2-1235 — Adoptive home not in child's best interests
• § 63.2-1236 — Duty of Department to disseminate information
• § 63.2-1237 — Petition for parental placement adoption; jurisdiction; contents
• § 63.2-1238 — Forwarding of petition; when investigation and report not required
• § 63.2-1239 — Return of copies furnished to counsel
• § 63.2-1240 — Court issuing order deemed sending agency under Interstate Compact on Placement of Children
• § 63.2-1241 — Adoption of child by spouse of birth or adoptive parent or other person with legitimate interest
• § 63.2-1242 — Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court
• § 63.2-1242.1 — Relative adoption
• § 63.2-1242.2 — Close relative adoption; child in home less than two years
• § 63.2-1242.3 — Close relative placement; child in home for two years or more
• § 63.2-1243 — Adoption of certain persons eighteen years of age or over
• § 63.2-1244 — Investigation and report at discretion of circuit court; exception
• § 63.2-1245 — Separate order book, file and index of adoption cases; to whom available; permanent retention
• § 63.2-1246 — Disposition of reports; disclosure of information as to identity of birth family
• § 63.2-1246.1 — Commissioner authority to store, preserve, and certify adoption files
• § 63.2-1247 — Disclosure to birth family; adoptive parents; medical, etc., information; exchange of information; open records in parental placement adoptions
• § 63.2-1248 — Fees for home studies, investigations, visitations and reports
• § 63.2-1249 — Establishment of Registry
• § 63.2-1250 — Registration; notice; form
• § 63.2-1251 — Furnishing information; confidentiality; penalty
• § 63.2-1252 — Search of registry
• § 63.2-1253 — Duty to publicize registry