1. The agency which provides child welfare services or a child-placing agency shall, within 60 days after receipt of confirmation of the natural parents’ intent to place the child for adoption and a completed application for adoption from the prospective adoptive parents, complete an investigation of the medical, mental, financial and moral backgrounds of the prospective adoptive parents to determine the suitability of the home for placement of the child for adoption. The investigation must also embrace any other relevant factor relating to the qualifications of the prospective adoptive parents and may be a substitute for the investigation required to be conducted by the agency which provides child welfare services on behalf of the court when a petition for adoption is pending, if the petition for adoption is filed within 6 months after the completion of the investigation required by this subsection. If a child-placing agency undertakes the investigation, it shall provide progress reports to the agency which provides child welfare services in such a format and at such times as the agency which provides child welfare services requires to ensure that the investigation will be completed within the 60-day period. If, at any time, the agency which provides child welfare services determines that it is unlikely that the investigation will be completed in a timely manner, the agency which provides child welfare services shall take over the investigation and complete it within the 60-day period or as soon thereafter as practicable.
2. If the placement is to be made in a home outside of this state, the agency which provides child welfare services or child-placing agency must receive a copy of a report, completed by the appropriate authority, of an investigation of the home and the medical, mental, financial and moral backgrounds of the prospective adoptive parents to determine the suitability of the home for placement of the child for adoption, unless the child and one of the prospective adoptive parents are related within the third degree of consanguinity.
(Added to NRS by 1993, 68; A 1993, 2732; 2001 Special Session, 10)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 127 - Adoption of Children and Adults
NRS 127.007 - State Register for Adoptions: Establishment; contents; release of information.
NRS 127.008 - State Register of Children with Special Needs.
NRS 127.010 - Jurisdiction of district courts.
NRS 127.013 - Transfer of proceedings to Indian tribe.
NRS 127.018 - Court order required if home state of child is Nevada; exception.
NRS 127.020 - Adoption of minor children; ages and consent.
NRS 127.043 - Consent to adoption required before placement in adoptive home; exception.
NRS 127.052 - Agency to determine whether child is Indian child; notification of child’s tribe.
NRS 127.053 - Consent to adoption: Requisites.
NRS 127.060 - Adoption of two or more children.
NRS 127.070 - Validity of releases for and consents to adoption.
NRS 127.090 - When consent unnecessary.
NRS 127.100 - Entitlement of petitions, reports and orders.
NRS 127.123 - Notice of filing of petition to be provided to custodians or guardians of child.
NRS 127.127 - Affidavit setting forth fees, donations and expenses required to be filed; waiver.
NRS 127.130 - Confidentiality of reports; petitioner may rebut adverse report.
NRS 127.140 - Confidentiality of hearings, files and records.
NRS 127.145 - Attendance of prospective adoptive parents at hearing by telephone.
NRS 127.155 - Validation of certain orders and decrees.
NRS 127.157 - Report of adoption, amendment or annulment of adoption to State Registrar.
NRS 127.160 - Rights and duties of adopted child and adoptive parents.
NRS 127.171 - Right to visitation of child by sibling and other relatives; limitations.
NRS 127.180 - Appeals from orders, judgments or decrees.
NRS 127.1875 - Notice of agreement to court.
NRS 127.1885 - Petitions to court by natural parents and adoptive parents: Requirements.
NRS 127.189 - Failure to comply; action to enforce terms.
NRS 127.1895 - Modification or termination: Conditions; presumptions and considerations; scope.
NRS 127.190 - Adoption of adults: Ages; agreement of adoption.
NRS 127.200 - Adoption of adults: Consent required.
NRS 127.240 - License: Requirement; exceptions.
NRS 127.250 - License: Application; issuance; renewal.
NRS 127.270 - License: Refusal to issue or renew; notice and hearing; appeals.
NRS 127.275 - Fees for services provided by agency which provides child welfare services.
NRS 127.2805 - Investigation of prospective adoptive parents.
NRS 127.281 - Search for criminal record of prospective adoptive parent.
NRS 127.283 - Publication or broadcast of information concerning child.
NRS 127.288 - Penalty for unlawful payment to or acceptance by natural parent of compensation.
NRS 127.290 - Acceptance of fees or compensation for placing or arranging placement of child.
NRS 127.310 - Unlawful placement or advertising; penalty.
NRS 127.330 - Text of compact.
NRS 127.350 - Supplementary agreements.