Utah Code 80-2-803. Division promotion of adoption — Adoption research and informational pamphlet
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The division shall:
(1) actively promote the adoption of all children in the division’s custody who have a final plan for termination of parental rights under Section 80-3-409 or a primary permanency plan of adoption;
Terms Used In Utah Code 80-2-803
- Child: means , except as provided in Section
80-2-905 , an individual who is under 18 years old. See Utah Code 80-1-102 - Child-placing agency: means the same as that term is defined in Section
26B-2-101 . See Utah Code 80-1-102 - Division: means the Division of Child and Family Services created in Section 80-2-201. See Utah Code 80-2-102
- Termination of parental rights: means the permanent elimination of all parental rights and duties, including residual parental rights and duties, by court order. See Utah Code 80-1-102
(2) develop plans for the effective use of cross-jurisdictional resources to facilitate timely adoptive or permanent placements for waiting children;
(3) obtain information or conduct research regarding prior adoptive families to determine what families may do to be successful with an adoptive child;
(4) make the information or research described in Subsection (3) available to potential adoptive parents;
(5) prepare a pamphlet that explains the information that a child-placing agency is required to provide a potential adoptive parent under Section 78B-24-303;
(6) regularly distribute copies of the pamphlet described in Subsection (5) to child-placing agencies; and
(7) respond to an inquiry made as a result of the notice provided by a child-placing agency under Section 78B-24-303.