California Code
PART 2 - ADOPTION OF UNMARRIED MINORS
CHAPTER 3 - Independent Adoptions

Section 8800. - 8800. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that an attorney’s...

Section 8801. - 8801. (a) The selection of a prospective adoptive parent or...

Section 8801.3. - 8801.3. A child shall not be considered to have been...

Section 8801.5. - 8801.5. (a) Each birth parent placing a child for adoption...

Section 8801.7. - 8801.7. (a) An adoption service provider shall also witness the...

Section 8802. - 8802. (a) Any of the following adult persons who desire...

Section 8803. - 8803. (a) During the pendency of an adoption proceeding: (1)...

Section 8804. - 8804. (a) Whenever the petitioners move to withdraw the petition...

Section 8805. - 8805. At the hearing, if the court sustains the recommendation...

Section 8806. - 8806. The department or delegated county adoption agency shall accept...

Section 8807. - 8807. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c),...

Section 8808. - 8808. (a) The department or delegated county adoption agency shall...

Section 8810. - 8810. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whenever...

Section 8811. - 8811. (a) The department or delegated county adoption agency shall...

Section 8811.5. - 8811.5. (a) A licensed private or public adoption agency of...

Section 8812. - 8812. Any request by a birth parent or birth parents...

Section 8813. - 8813. At or before the time a consent to adoption...

Section 8814. - 8814. (a) Except as provided in Section 7662, the consent...

Section 8814.5. - 8814.5. (a) After a consent to the adoption is signed...

Section 8815. - 8815. (a) Once the revocable consent to adoption has become...

Section 8816. - 8816. In an independent adoption where the consent of the...

Section 8817. - 8817. (a) A written report on the child’s medical background,...

Section 8818. - 8818. (a) The department shall adopt a statement to be...

Section 8819. - 8819. When the parental rights of a birth parent are...

Section 8820. - 8820. (a) The birth parent or parents or the petitioner...

Section 8821. - 8821. When any report or findings are submitted to the...

Section 8822. - 8822. (a) If the findings of the department or delegated...

Section 8823. - 8823. The prospective adoptive parents and the child proposed to...