63.2-1240 - Court issuing order deemed sending agency under Interstate Compact on Placement of Children. - Virginia Statutes

§ 63.2-1240. Court issuing order deemed sending agency under InterstateCompact on Placement of Children.

When a petitioner moves outside the Commonwealth after the entry of aninterlocutory order of adoption but prior to the entry of a final order ofadoption and the child was not placed by a child-placing agency, the circuitcourt issuing the interlocutory order shall be deemed the sending agency forthe purposes of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Childrenauthorized pursuant to the provisions of § 63.2-1000.

(1978, c. 733, § 63.1-226.1; 2000, c. 830, § 63.1-219.47; 2002, c. 747.)