Rule Text
A. After an interlocutory decree has been entered, if ordered by the court, the attorney arranging the private adoption shall ensure that a licensed professional tasked with ensuring the safety and health of the child in the adoptive placement shall maintain contact with the proposed adoptive home directly or through another agency in accordance with Article 1229.
B. If an interlocutory decree has been entered, a second confidential report shall be presented to the court preceding the hearing on the final decree of private adoption. The findings of this report shall be based upon the same considerations as prescribed in Article 1229 and shall disclose any changed conditions and all new pertinent information.
C. Repealed by Acts 2022, No. 633, §2.
Amendment history: Acts 1991, No. 235, §12, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Acts 1999, No. 1062, §4, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2021, No. 6, §1; Acts 2022, No. 633, §§1, 2.
Plain-English Summary (for reference only — not a substitute for the rule text above)
This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
Once a court gives an early approval (called an interlocutory decree) for a private adoption, the case is not finished. If the court orders it, a licensed professional must keep checking on the child in the adoptive home. This person makes sure the child is safe and healthy during this waiting period. The lawyer handling the adoption is responsible for making sure this checkup happens, either directly or through an agency.
Before the court holds the final hearing to make the adoption permanent, this professional must write a second report for the judge. This report is confidential, meaning it's not open to the public. It covers the same topics as the first report done earlier in the case, but it also has to include anything new. This means if circumstances have changed in the home, or if new information has come up about the child or the adoptive parents, the judge needs to know about it before making a final decision.
The third part of this rule used to cover another requirement, but lawmakers removed it in 2022. That part no longer applies.
