Section 8808 Of Chapter 3. Independent Adoptions From California Family Law Code >> Division 13. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 3.
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. (a) The department or delegated county adoption agency shall
interview the petitioners within 45 working days, excluding legal
holidays, after the department or delegated county adoption agency
receives 50 percent of the investigation fee together with a stamped
file copy of the adoption petition.
(b) The department or delegated county adoption agency shall
interview all persons from whom consent is required and whose
addresses are known. The interview with the placing parent or parents
shall include, but not be limited to, discussion of any concerns or
problems that the parent has with the placement and, if the placing
parent was not interviewed as provided in Section 8801.7, the content
required in that interview. At the interview, the agency shall give
the parent an opportunity to sign either a statement revoking the
consent, or a waiver of the right to revoke consent, as provided in
Section 8814.5, unless the parent has already signed a waiver or the
time period allowed to revoke consent has expired.
(c) In order to facilitate the interview described in this
section, within five business days of filing the petition, the
petitioners shall provide the department or delegated county adoption
agency a stamped file copy of the petition together with 50 percent
of the fee, a copy of any valid preplacement evaluation or any valid
private agency adoption home study, as described in paragraph (2) of
subdivision (a) of Section 8810, and the names, addresses, and
telephone numbers of all parties to be interviewed, if known.