Cal. Rules of Court, rule 5.491 · Chapter 3. Intercountry Adoptions
Adoption of a child resident in the United States by a resident of a foreign country not party to the Hague Adoption Convention
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
The adoption of a child resident in the United States by a resident of a foreign country not party to the Hague Adoption Convention must conform to the law governing California adoptions.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 5.491 adopted effective July 1, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/five/rule5_491
- Text hash
- sha256 da6b9480b2498f674a085b2d87d19d30501a85c6e902c1db0649ae2f61ace007
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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