OAR 413-120-0115
Procedures


(1)

When adoption assistance has been approved, and the adoptive parents decide to use a “qualified vendor” attorney, the Adoption Assistance staff send the family a Qualified Vendor Agreement and the Qualified Vendor Attorney List. The family and the attorney must sign the Qualified Vendor Agreement and return it to the central Adoptions Services Unit. Upon receipt of the adoption decree, the adoption assistance staff will prepare the request to reimburse the attorney in accordance with the Department’s contract with the attorney.

(2)

If the adoptive parents choose to use an attorney who is not on the Qualified Vendor Attorney List, the adoption assistance staff will send the adoptive parents a Non Vendor Agreement. The adoptive parents must sign the agreement and return it to the Adoption Services Unit. Upon receipt of the adoption decree, the adoption assistance staff will reimburse the adoptive parents at the same rate as for a vendor attorney. The adoptive parents are responsible for any additional charges billed by the attorney and are responsible to reimburse the attorney for those charges.

(3)

Department employees may not recommend an attorney to serve as counsel for the prospective parents.

(4)

When the central office Adoptions Services Unit has received the request for consent to the adoption and the vendor or non-vendor agreement, the adoption assistance is in place, and the Legal Assistance Specialist has given approval, the Adoptions Services Unit will prepare the consent to be signed by the Adoption Services Manager or another person designated by the Assistant Director for Children, Adults and Families. In addition to the Consent to the Adoption, the Department’s Adoption Services Unit will provide the adoptive parents or their attorney with the following documents to be filed with the petition:

(a)

A certified copy of the court orders or the original release and surrender documents which show that the Department has permanent custody of the child and the authority to consent to the child’s adoption.

(b)

ICWA correspondence, if applicable.

(c)

Statement of verification that the birth parents and the petitioners have been advised of the voluntary adoption registry.

(d)

Documentation regarding compliance with the Interstate Compact on Placement of Children, if applicable.

(e)

A copy of a signed legally enforceable Post Adoption Communication Agreement, if available.

(f)

Affidavits, if applicable.

(5)

After receiving the documents listed in (4), the Department will send the Consent to Adopt to the attorney for the adoptive family. Within 30 calendar days of the date the Department sends the Consent to Adopt, the attorney must file the petition (unless a petition is not required under ORS 419.B529). After the central office Adoptions Services Unit receives a copy of the petition filed with the court, the Department will provide the court with the written court report waiving the 90-day waiting period.

(6)

After the Department sends the Consent to Adopt to the attorney, the attorney prepares the petition if required and files it with the court, and the Department sends the written court report to the court, the attorney must, within 30 days following the court’s receipt of the report to the court, prepare a decree and send it to the court or schedule an Adoption Ceremony.

(7)

The court granting the adoption decree will provide the central office Adoption Services Unit with a copy of the adoption decree.
413‑120‑0000
Definitions
413‑120‑0010
Purpose
413‑120‑0016
Confidentiality
413‑120‑0020
Adoption Placement Selection Options
413‑120‑0021
Adoption Placement Selection by Caseworker
413‑120‑0025
Composition of an Adoption Committee
413‑120‑0035
Invitation to and Notification of Adoption Committee
413‑120‑0053
The Adoption Committee
413‑120‑0057
Adoption Placement Selection, Notification, and Documentation
413‑120‑0060
Review of the Adoption Placement Selection
413‑120‑0100
Purpose
413‑120‑0110
Values
413‑120‑0115
Procedures
413‑120‑0142
Purpose
413‑120‑0145
Values
413‑120‑0155
Conditions for Not Filing a Petition for Adoption
413‑120‑0160
Right to Use Expedited Process
413‑120‑0165
Requirements Prior to Proceeding to Legalization of the Adoption
413‑120‑0170
Attorney Fees
413‑120‑0175
Court Filing Requirements
413‑120‑0190
Purpose
413‑120‑0220
Adoption Application Requirements
413‑120‑0222
Conflict of Interest for Adoptive Applicants
413‑120‑0225
Conditions that Require Additional Approval or Termination of the Department’s Adoption Application Process
413‑120‑0240
Status Notification of Adoption Applications
413‑120‑0243
Prioritization of an Adoption Home Study Application
413‑120‑0246
Standards for an Adoptive Home and Release of an Adoption Home Study
413‑120‑0400
Purpose
413‑120‑0440
Circumstances in which a Criminal Records Check Must Occur and Types of Records Checks Required
413‑120‑0450
Disqualifying and Potentially Disqualifying Criminal Convictions
413‑120‑0455
Potentially Disqualifying Arrests
413‑120‑0457
Weighing Test
413‑120‑0460
Contesting a Fitness Determination
413‑120‑0475
Record Keeping, Confidentiality
413‑120‑0600
Purpose
413‑120‑0620
Values
413‑120‑0625
Roles and Responsibilities
413‑120‑0628
Criteria for Using the Cooperative Adoption Mediation Process
413‑120‑0630
Post Adoption Communication Agreements (PACAs)
413‑120‑0635
Cooperative Adoption Planning Through Legal Assistance Mediation Services
413‑120‑0700
Purpose
413‑120‑0720
Department Efforts to Place with Relatives, Current Caretakers and to Place Siblings Together
413‑120‑0730
Order of Preference for Identification of Potential Adoptive Resources
413‑120‑0735
Current Caretaker or Relative Caregiver Request for an Adoption Home Study
413‑120‑0750
Recruitment Efforts
413‑120‑0760
Identification of a Child’s Potential Adoptive Resources
413‑120‑0800
Purpose
413‑120‑0830
Department Actions Prior to Placement
413‑120‑0840
Early Adoption Transition
413‑120‑0860
Placement and Post-placement Supervision
413‑120‑0870
Disruption
413‑120‑0880
No Delay in Placement
413‑120‑0900
Purpose
413‑120‑0910
Duty to Provide Information to Convention Case Registry
413‑120‑0920
Adoption of a Child Immigrating to the United States (Incoming Convention Adoption)
413‑120‑0925
Adoption of a Child Emigrating from the United States (Outgoing Convention Adoption)
413‑120‑0930
Transition, Travel, Placement, and Registration Requirements
413‑120‑0940
Post-Placement Supervision
413‑120‑0945
Finalization and Post-Finalization Duties
413‑120‑0950
Adoption Assistance
413‑120‑0960
Disclosure to the Adoptive Family
413‑120‑0970
Hague Custody Declarations
Last Updated

Jun. 8, 2021

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