The Florida Senate

39.812  Postdisposition relief.--

(1)  A licensed child-placing agency or the department which is given custody of a child for subsequent adoption in accordance with this chapter may place the child in a family home for prospective subsequent adoption, and the licensed child-placing agency or the department may thereafter become a party to any proceeding for the legal adoption of the child and appear in any court where the adoption proceeding is pending and consent to the adoption; and that consent alone shall in all cases be sufficient.

(2)  In any subsequent adoption proceeding, the parents shall not be entitled to any notice thereof, nor shall they be entitled to knowledge at any time after the order terminating parental rights is entered of the whereabouts of the child or of the identity or location of any person having the custody of or having adopted the child, except as provided by order of the court pursuant to this chapter or chapter 63; and in any habeas corpus or other proceeding involving the child brought by any parent of the child, no agent or contract provider of the licensed child-placing agency or department shall be compelled to divulge that information, but may be compelled to produce the child before a court of competent jurisdiction if the child is still subject to the guardianship of the licensed child-placing agency or department.

(3)  The entry of the custody order to the department or licensed child-placing agency shall not entitle the licensed child-placing agency or department to guardianship of the estate or property of the child, but the licensed child-placing agency or department shall be the guardian of the person of the child.

(4)  The court shall retain jurisdiction over any child for whom custody is given to a licensed child-placing agency or to the department until the child is adopted. After custody of a child for subsequent adoption has been given to an agency or the department, the court has jurisdiction for the purpose of reviewing the status of the child and the progress being made toward permanent adoptive placement. As part of this continuing jurisdiction, for good cause shown by the guardian ad litem for the child, the court may review the appropriateness of the adoptive placement of the child.

History.--s. 9, ch. 87-289; s. 41, ch. 94-164; s. 14, ch. 95-228; s. 94, ch. 98-403.

Note.--Former s. 39.47.