Minnesota Adoption Laws, Page 8
Use of Advertising and Facilitators in Adoptive Placements
Use of Advertisement
Not addressed in statutes reviewed
Use of Intermediaries/Facilitators
Statute: §§ 259.21; 259.47- No person, other than the commissioner or an agency, may engage in placement activities, without being licensed by the commissioner, except for the placement of a child by a birth parent or legal guardian in a preadoptive home. 'Placement activities' include:
- Placement
- Arranging or providing short-term foster care pending an adoptive placement
- Maintaining a list in any form of birth parents or prospective adoptive parents
- Collecting health and social histories of a birth family
- Conducting an adoption study
- Witnessing consents to an adoption
- Placement
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