8-172. Interstate compacts; requirements;
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The department may enter into a compact with other states to provide for the
reciprocal enforcement of adoption assistance agreements. A compact entered into
pursuant to this section shall contain the following:
1. A provision making it available for joinder by all states.
2. A provision or provisions for withdrawal from the compact on written notice to
the parties no sooner than one year from the date of the notice.
3. A requirement that the protections afforded by or pursuant to the compact
continue in force for the duration of the adoption assistance and are applicable to all
children and their adoptive parents who on the effective date of the state's withdrawal
from the compact are receiving adoption assistance from a party state other than the one
in which they are residents and have their principal place of abode.
4. A requirement that each instance of adoption assistance to which the compact
applies is covered by an adoption assistance agreement in writing between the adoptive
parents and the state child welfare agency of the state that provides the adoption
assistance and that this agreement is expressly for the benefit of the adopted child and
is enforceable by the adoptive parents and the state agency providing the adoption
assistance.
5. Other provisions necessary to implement the compact.
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