Wis. Admin. Code Department of Children and Families DCF 50.08 - Placement for the purpose of a public adoption

(1) BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD.

(a) The public adoption agency that is responsible for placing a child for adoption or, if the child is at legal risk, the placing agency, shall determine if placement with specific prospective adoptive parents whose home study has been approved is in the best interest of the child.

(b) A public adoption agency shall consider the availability of a placement for adoption with a relative of the child who is identified in the child's permanency plan or is otherwise known to the public adoption agency, as required under s. 48.834(1), Stats.

(c) If a child has one or more siblings who have been adopted or have been placed for adoption, the public adoption agency shall make reasonable efforts to place the child with an adoptive parent or proposed adoptive parent of such a sibling who is identified in the child's permanency plan or otherwise known to the public adoption agency, unless the public adoption agency determines that a joint placement would be contrary to the safety or well-being of the child or the sibling, as required under s. 48.834(2), Stats.

(d) If the child is an Indian child, the public adoption agency shall comply with the order of placement preference under s. 48.028(7), Stats., unless there is good cause as described in s. 48.028(7) (e), Stats., for departing from that order.

(2) REMOVAL FROM FOSTER HOME. Before the adoption is final, an agency appointed as guardian of the child under s. 48.427(3m) (a) 1 to 4., (am), or (b), Stats., may remove the child from the child's placement under s. 48.437, Stats.

(3) PLACEMENT NOT GUARANTEED. Prospective adoptive parents whose home study has been approved are not guaranteed placement or continued placement of a child.

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Wis. Admin. Code Department of Children and Families DCF 50.08

Adopted by, CR 18-001: cr. Register August 2018 No. 752, eff. 9/1/2018