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Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3
3.11 WORKING WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS
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4.37 WORKING WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS
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General Provisions
13.1 Introduction to Adoption Services
13.2 Child Freed for Adoption Procedure
13.2.1 Child Focused Recruitment Model (CFRM)
13.3 Adoption Review Committee
13.4 Matching an Adoptive Family with a Waiting Child
Preparing for Adoption
13.6 Preparing the child for a planned foster parent adoption or recruitment of an adoptive home.
13.7 Foster Parent's and Other Caregivers Role in Preparing Child for Adoption When Foster Parent Adoption Isn't Planned
13.8 "Goodbye" Visit
13.9 Sibling Relationship Decisions
13.10 Preparing the Presentation Summary Packet
13.10.1 Updating the Presentation Summary
Making the Placement and Service Provision
13.13 Placement Resources
13.13.1 DCBS Foster Parent Adoption
13.13.2 Private Child Placing (PCP) Foster Parent Adoption
13.13.3 Foster Parent Adoption Not Recommended
13.13.4 Employee Adoption
13.14 Referral of a Child to the Kentucky Adoption Profile Exchange (KAPE)
13.17 Planning the Placement/Pre-Placement Conference
13.18 Pre-Placement Visits
13.19 Making the Adoptive Placement
13.20.1 Withdrawing the Adoptive Referral
13.21 Annual Permanency Reviews
13.22 Family Team Meeting (FTM)/Periodic Review for Children in Adoptive Placement
Finalizing the Adoption
13.25 Petition for Adoption
13.26 Assisting the Adoptive Family's Attorney in Finalizing the Adoption of a DCBS Child
13.27 Court Report
13.28 Adoption Judgment
13.29 Sealing Closed Adoption Records
13.30 Confidentiality of Closed Agency Adoption Records
13.30.1 Requesting Non-Identifying Information About Biological Relatives from Closed Adoption Records
13.30.2 Request for Inspection of Adoption Records for Identifying Information and Contact with the Birth Family
13.30.3 Mutual Requests from Pre-Adoptive Siblings
13.30.4 Request for Information from a Biological Parent
13.30.5 Updating Health Information
Adoption Disruption
13.34 Managing Adoption Disruptions
Adoption Assistance
13.39 Adoption Assistance
13.40 Approval of Adoption Assistance
13.41 Denial of Adoption Assistance
13.42 Annual Contact with the Adoptive Family
13.43 Adoption Assistance Renegotiation
13.44 Discontinuance of Adoption Assistance
13.45.1 State Funded Post Finalization Adoption Assistance Request
13.45.2 Federal Title IV-E Post Adoption Finalization Adoption Assistance Request
13.45.3 Post Adoptive Placement Stabilization Services (PAPSS)
13.45.4 Post Adoption Child Support
13.46 Continuation of Adoption Assistance After Age 18
13.46.1 Continuation of Title IV-E Adoption Assistance After Age 18
Independent Adoption
13.50 Relative and Non-Relative Independent Adoptions
13.51 Independent Relative Adoptions
13.52 Independent Non-Relative Adoption Application
13.53 Interstate Independent Adoption
13.54 Planning for the Child Following Withdrawal of Independent Adoption Applications
13.55 Court Report for Independent Adoption
13.56 Court Action
Standards of Practice Manual
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13.26 Assisting the Adoptive Family's Attorney in Finalizing the Adoption of a DCBS Child
Effective: 7/26/2023
13.26 Assisting the Adoptive Family's Attorney in Finalizing the Adoption of a DCBS Child
Legal Authority
KRS 199.470 Petition for adoption of child-Parties-Residence requirement- Approval of secretary- Exceptions.
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KRS 199.490 Contents of adoption petition-Accompanying papers
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https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=7192
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922 KAR 1:140 Foster care and adoption permanency services
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Introduction
Introduction
Practice Guidance
Practice Guidance
Cabinet for Health and Family Services (Cabinet/CHFS) staff cannot recommend a specific attorney or law firm for purposes of finalizing an adoption.
Obtaining the adopted child’s new birth certificate:
If the adopted child was born in Kentucky, the Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics prepares a new birth certificate upon receipt of notice from the circuit court clerk that the adoption has been finalized.
The new birth certificate is issued in the child’s adoptive name, listing the adoptive parent as the child’s parents, and indicating the adoptive parent’s county of residence as the child’s county of birth.
The child’s original birth certificate is sealed from the date of the judgment of adoption and can only be released through a court order.
After the adoption judgment has been granted, the circuit court clerk sends the completed VS-102 form with the child’s adoptive name and the names of the adoptive parents to the Office of Vital Statistics.
The fee for the new birth certificate and request for a copy may be forwarded to the Office of Vital Statistics by the circuit court clerk with the VS-102 form, or separately by the petitioner’s attorney or by the petitioners themselves.
The new birth certificate is then issued.
To obtain the new birth certificate for a child born out-of-state, the circuit court clerk sends the VS-102 with the appropriate fee to the vital statistics office in the child’s state of birth.
The address of the out-of-state vital statistics offices can be obtained from the Adoption Services Branch.
Procedure
Procedure
The FSOS provides the following information to the adoptive family’s attorney for Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) children for whom a
DPP-195 Adoptive Placement Agreement
has been signed by all applicable parties:
A certified copy of the order and judgment terminating parental rights after the child's name and date of birth have been verified or the certified wardship order for applicable cases as outlined in
SOP 11.10 Wardship Cases
;
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The child’s birth name;
The child's birth date;
The child's state of birth; and
An explanation that the
DPP-215 Consent to the Adoption
is filed with the report to the court.
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Footnotes
If a discrepancy is noted, the Office of Legal Services is notified and prepares an amended order. (A certified copy of the amended order is provided to the family's attorney).
Relative Content
Documents
DPP-195 Adoptive Placement Agreement
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DPP-215 Consent to Adoption
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Revisions
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7/26/2023
An explanation that the
DPP-215 Consent to the Adoption
is filed with the report to the court
after completion of the post-placement services
.