Cal. Rules of Court, rule 5.492 · Chapter 3. Intercountry Adoptions
Adoption by a United States resident of a child resident in a foreign country that is party to the Hague Adoption Convention
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
A United States resident who plans to adopt, in California, a child resident in a foreign country that is party to the Hague Adoption Convention must provide to the California court the required proof, in the form of a Hague Custody Declaration, that all required Hague Adoption Convention findings have been made by the child's country of residence.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 5.492 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_492
- Text hash
- sha256 fbd9fe86333627ebb3c606e93a49526e420cbfd3c0c13aedae89449447c209b6
- 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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