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Completing Intercountry Adoptions Not Finalized Abroad

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Court Jurisdiction and Venue for Adoption Petitions

Cross-Reporting Among Agencies That Respond to Child Abuse and Neglect

Definitions of Child Abuse and Neglect

Definitions of Domestic Violence

Definitions of Human Trafficking

Determining the Best Interests of the Child

Disclosure of Confidential Child Abuse and Neglect Records

Educational Supports for Youth in Foster Care

Establishment and Maintenance of Central Registries for Child Abuse or Neglect Reports

Extension of Foster Care Beyond Age 18

Grounds for Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights

Home Study Requirements for Prospective Foster Parents

Home Study Requirements for Prospective Parents in Domestic Adoption

Immunity for Persons Who Report Child Abuse and Neglect

Infant Safe Haven Laws

Intestate Inheritance Rights for Adopted Children

Kinship Guardianship as a Permanency Option

Links to State and Tribal Child Welfare Law and Policy

Making and Screening Reports of Child Abuse and Neglect

Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse and Neglect

Parental Substance Use as Child Abuse

Penalties for Failure to Report and False Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect

Placement of Children With Relatives

Plans of Safe Care Infants With Prenatal Substance Exposure and Their Families

Postadoption Contact Agreements Between Birth and Adoptive Families

Protecting the Rights and Providing Appropriate Services to LGBTQIA2S+ Youth in Out-of-Home Care

Providing Adoptive Parents With Information About Adoptees and Their Birth Families

Reasonable Efforts to Preserve or Reunify Families and Achieve Permanency for Children

Regulation of Private Domestic Adoption Expenses

Religious Rights of Youth in Out-of-Home Care

Representation of Children in Child Abuse and Neglect Proceedings

Responding to Child Victims of Human Trafficking

Responding to Youth Missing From Foster Care

Review and Expunction of Central Registries and Reporting Records

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Standby Guardianship

State Recognition of Intercountry Adoptions Finalized Abroad

The Use of Safety and Risk Assessment in Child Protection Cases

Unregulated Custody Transfers of Adopted Children

Use of Advertising and Facilitators in Adoptive Placements

Who May Adopt, Be Adopted, or Place a Child for Adoption

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