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Private adoption agency definition

Private adoption agency means a child welfare agency with the powers and duties of an adoption agency under ss. 48.60 and 48.61 (5) and (7), Stats., or a comparable agency authorized under the laws of another state.
Private adoption agency means a body corporate which holds a licence provided for by Division 2 of Part 2;
Private adoption agency means a charitable organisa• tion for the time being approved as a private adop• tion agency under Part III of this Act.

Examples of Private adoption agency in a sentence

  • Private adoption agency, attorney, and curator ad hoc for child, and Department of Social Services then intervened and applied for supervisory writs.


More Definitions of Private adoption agency

Private adoption agency means a private child placing agency that places or arranges for placement of a child in an approved adoptive home and provides adoptive services for a child who does not have an open dependency case and is not in custody of the Department.

Related to Private adoption agency

  • Adoption agency means an agency, body, office or court, authorised by a Commonwealth or State law to perform functions about adoption.

  • Local education agency means: a public authority legally constituted by the state as an administrative agency to provide control of and direction for Kindergarten through Twelfth (12th) grade public educational institutions.

  • Sending agency means a party state, officer or employee thereof; a subdivision of a party state, or officer or employee thereof; a court of a party state; a person, corporation, association, charitable agency or other entity which sends, brings, or causes to be sent or brought any child to another party state.

  • Contracting agency means the principal departments in the Executive Branch of the State Government, and any division, board, bureau, office, commission or other instrumentality within or created by such department, or any independent State authority, commission, instrumentality or agency, or any State college or university, any county college, or any local unit; with respect to this Contract, the contracting agency shall mean the Division;