Virginia's General Adoption Statutes

Virginia

1. • Director of social services
2. • Child placement agency

1. • Physical and mental condition
2. • Circumstances under which child came to be placed with adoptive family
3. • Suitability of child for the prospective parents

1. • Reasons for placing child for adoption
2. • Whether parents have abandoned the child or are morally unfit to have custody
3. • Physical, mental, social, and psychological history, if known

1. • Financial ability
2. • Moral suitability
3. • Whether the parent is in satisfactory health and mental condition to care for the adopted person

Schedule of Hearings
Citation: §§ 40-11-12.1; 40-11-12.2
A permanency hearing shall be held:

• Within 12 months of the child's placement in care; at least every 12 months thereafter
• Within 30 days after a finding that reasonable efforts to reunify are not required

• All parties
• The foster parents
• Any preadoptive parent or relative providing care for the child

• The appropriateness of the service plan
• What services have been offered
• Any further efforts that will promote the best interests of the child

• Return to the parent
• Adoption
• Legal guardianship
• Placement with a fit and willing relative
• Another planned permanent living arrangement

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