Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Children and Families
DCF 021-99 - Safety and Permanence
Chapter DCF 50 - Facilitating Public Adoptions And Adoption Assistance
Section DCF 50.01 - Authority and purpose

Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง DCF 50.01

Current through August 26, 2024

(1) FACILITATING PUBLIC ADOPTIONS. Sections DCF 50.02 to 50.08 are promulgated under the authority of ss. 48.48(1), (2), and (8), 48.55(2), 48.88(2), and 227.11(2), Stats., to facilitate public adoptions by doing all of the following:

(a) Establishing criteria and procedures for determining if prospective adoptive parents are qualified to adopt a child who is under the guardianship of a public adoption agency in this state.

(b) Connecting children who are legally free for public adoption and children who are at legal risk with qualified prospective adoptive parents through a state adoption information exchange.

(2) ADOPTION ASSISTANCE. Sections DCF 50.02 and 50.09 to 50.17 are promulgated under the authority of s. 48.975, Stats., to specify criteria and procedures necessary to implement the adoption assistance program, under which the department makes payments to adoptive or proposed adoptive parents of an eligible child with special needs when the department determines such assistance is necessary to assure the child's adoption.

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