NAC127.095. Intercountry adoption.

     1. Before a child-placing agency or agency which provides child welfare services may approve the placement of a child in this state through an intercountry adoption, the adoption agency arranging the intercountry placement must provide to the child-placing agency or agency which provides child welfare services information about the child to be placed for adoption.

     2. An adoption agency which arranges an intercountry adoption:

     (a) Shall not place a child with a prospective adoptive family without the written approval of a child-placing agency or an agency which provides child welfare services in this state; and

     (b) Shall advise the child-placing agency or the agency which provides child welfare services which has approved the placement of the child when it has placed the child with that approved prospective adoptive family.

     (Added to NAC by Div. of Child & Fam. Services, eff. 5-14-96; A by R056-02, 7-30-2002)—(Substituted in revision for NAC 127.264)