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To
enter an
adoption decree, the court must be satisfied that:
- The child is
available for adoption;
- The adopting
parents are suitable and of good moral character, able to support and
educate
the child and have a suitable home;
- The criminal
records check does not disqualify the adopting parents;
- The child’s
mental and physical condition make him or her a proper subject for
adoption;
- The child’s
best interests will be served by adoption; and
- If a child is
a member of a sibling group, whether it is in the best interests of the
child
to remain in that group (after reviewing the family services plan
regarding
sibling placement and weighing the rebuttable presumption that it is in
the
sibling group’s best interests to remain together).
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