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Code of Virginia

Article 1

General Provisions

63.2-1200Who may place children for adoption 63.2-1200.1Recognition of foreign adoption; issuance of birth certificates 63.2-1201Filing of petition for adoption; venue; jurisdiction; and proceedings 63.2-1201.1Previously married persons who stood in loco parentis during the time of the marriage may adopt in the same manner as married persons 63.2-1202Parental, or agency, consent required; exceptions 63.2-1203When consent is withheld or unobtainable 63.2-1204When consent is revocable; fraud or duress; mutual consent 63.2-1205Best interests of the child; standards for determining 63.2-1205.1Certain offenders prohibited from adopting a child 63.2-1206No parental presumption after revocation period expires 63.2-1207Removal of child from adoptive home 63.2-1208Investigations; report to circuit court 63.2-1209Entry of interlocutory order 63.2-1210Probationary period, interlocutory order and order of reference not required under certain circumstances 63.2-1211Revocation of interlocutory order 63.2-1212Visitations during probationary period and report 63.2-1213Final order of adoption 63.2-1214Annual review of pending petitions for adoption; duty of Commissioner and circuit court clerk 63.2-1215Legal effects of adoption 63.2-1216Final order not subject to attack after six months 63.2-1217Provision of false information; penalty 63.2-1218Certain exchange of property, advertisement, solicitation prohibited; penalty 63.2-1219Suspected violation of property exchange information 63.2-1220Issuance of birth certificates for children adopted in the Commonwealth 63.2-1220.01Foreign adoptions; establishment of date of birth 63.2-1220.1Establishment of minimum training requirements