37.52.104    HOME APPROVAL, ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

(1) The department will not accept adoptive applicants who have current applications before any other licensed adoption agency.

(2) The department decides whether applicants will be studied and whether children will be placed. The department may limit adoptive intake according to the number and type of children available for adoption.

(3) Adoptive applicants must submit to the department a physical examination report as part of the adoption application.

(4) Adoptive applicants must have sufficient income to provide for an additional child or children.

(5) A social worker completes an adoptive home study and recommends the type of child for whom a family will be considered.

(6) The department notifies the applicant when the home is approved for an adoptive placement.

(7) The adoptive home must be re-evaluated after 1 year if a child has not been placed in the home.

(8) At the time of placement, the adoptive family must sign an adoptive placement agreement.

History: Sec. 52-1-103 and 53-4-111, MCA; IMP, Sec. 53-4-112 and 53-4-115, MCA; NEW, Eff. 12/31/72; TRANS, from Dept. of SRS, 1987 MAR p. 1492, Eff. 7/1/87; AMD, 1988 MAR p. 979, Eff. 5/27/88; TRANS, from DFS, 1998 MAR p. 659.