Family and children matters.

Summary

The act requires courts to notify a broader list of parties before an adoption can be finalized and makes proof of that notice a prerequisite for scheduling the final hearing. It also creates a framework for post‑adoption contact agreements and sets new preferences, background‑check standards, and decision‑making criteria for out‑of‑home placements and juvenile dispositional orders. The changes affect adoptive parents, birth parents, grandparents, child‑placing agencies, the Department of Child Services, and juveniles in the court system.

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