SECTION 749.3425. What are the requirements for post-placement contacts with the adoptive family and child?

(a) You must have face-to-face contacts with the child and adoptive parents, as follows:

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(b) Contacts not in the home must allow you enough privacy to counsel with the adoptive family and evaluate the placement.

(c) After the first six months of placement, you must have at least quarterly face-to-face contacts in the adoptive home with the entire adoptive family until the adoption decree is entered.

(d) Contacts must be documented by child placement staff.

(e) You may contract with another licensed child-placing agency to make these contacts as long as:

(1) The person making the contacts meets the minimum qualifications for a child placement staff in §749.673 of this title (relating to What are the qualifications that an employee must have to perform child placement activities?);

(2) The agency submits the required documentation to you;

(3) Your child-placement management staff reviews and approves the documentation; and

(4) You maintain the documentation in the child's record.

Source Note: The provisions of this §749.3425 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; amended to be effective September 1, 2010, 35 TexReg 7522; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909