Code of Virginia
Chapter 12 - Adoption
§ 63.2-1213. Final order of adoption

After consideration of the report made pursuant to § 63.2-1212 or as permitted pursuant to § 63.2-1210, if the circuit court is satisfied that the best interests of the child will be served thereby, the circuit court shall enter the final order of adoption. However, a final order of adoption shall not be entered until information has been furnished by the petitioner in compliance with § 32.1-262 unless the circuit court, for good cause shown, finds the information to be unavailable or unnecessary. No circuit court shall deny a petitioner a final order of adoption for the sole reason that the child was placed in the physical custody of the petitioner by a person not authorized to make such placements pursuant to § 63.2-1200. An attested copy of every final order of adoption shall be forwarded, by the clerk of the circuit court in which it was entered, to the Commissioner and to the child-placing agency that placed the child or to the local director, in cases where the child was not placed by an agency.
Code 1950, § 63-356; 1962, c. 603; 1964, c. 429; 1968, c. 578, § 63.1-230; 1975, c. 364; 1981, c. 318; 1988, c. 431; 2000, c. 830, § 63.1-219.20; 2002, c. 747; 2006, cc. 825, 848; 2007, cc. 606, 623.

Structure Code of Virginia

Code of Virginia

Title 63.2 - Welfare (Social Services)

Chapter 12 - Adoption

§ 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

§ 63.2-1228.1. Repealed

§ 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