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 Title45a Probate Courts and Procedure
 SubTitle45a-728-1_45a-728-10. Adoption Placement of Children Who Have Been Identified or Located by Prospective Adoptive Parents

  Sec.45a-728-5. Prospective adoptive parents—homestudy  

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  • (a) Prospective adoptive parents should initiate the identified adoption process by requesting a homestudy by a child placing agency. During the homestudy process, the child placing agency shall provide the prospective adoptive parents detailed information regarding the identified adoption process and a copy of these regulations.

    (b) Prospective adoptive parents and their home must be studied and determined to meet licensing standards prior to the placement of a child in their home. Such determination should be done prior to the identification of a prospective child for adoption. However, a child placing agency (or the department in the case of a child or youth in the care or custody of the Commissioner) may accept a request for a homestudy where the identification of a child has been made prior to the initiation or completion of the homestudy unless the manner of location or identification of the child is inconsistent with these regulations.

    (c) In all cases, placement of a child with the prospective adoptive parent(s) shall not be permitted less than forty-five (45) days from the initiation of the homestudy process (which is defined as the first in person meeting regarding adoption between the prospective adoptive parent(s) and a qualified representative of a child placing agency, or a non approved child placing agency).

    (d) In all cases placement of a child with a prospective adoptive parent shall not be permitted until the home is determined by the child placing agency or non-approved child placing agency to have met the requirements of the state into which the child is to be placed.

    (e) No homestudy for adoption purposes by any child placing agency or the department shall be permitted if the child is already residing in the home of the prospective adoptive family. This prohibition shall not apply: (1) in cases where the child was placed in the home by a child-placing agency or the Commissioner; (2) in cases when the placement of the child in the home was not for adoption purposes and the adoption application will be brought before the adoption review board under the provisions of Section 45a-764 of the Connecticut General Statutes.

(Effective December 22, 1994)