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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
AMENDMENT TO THE COOK COUNTY ADOPTION AND FAMILY SUPPORTIVE SERVICES ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Chapter 38 Health and Human Services, Article VIII Adoption and Family Supportive Services, Section 38-173 of the Cook County Code is hereby amended as Follows:
Sec. 38-173 . Fees.
The Department shall charge fees for the following services with the amounts as set in Section 32-1 of this Code.
(1) Adoption Intake Interview - Initial meeting with prospective adoptive family providing an overview of the adoption process, review of qualifications for adoption and implementation of the process for criminal and DCFS background check.
(2) Birth Parent Interview and Consent - interviewing and collecting information from the birth parent and overview of the signature of documents that allow the birth parent(s) to relinquish rights and responsibilities of the child to a specific person.
(3) Adult Adoptee Inquiry (paid by Adoptee) - Retrieval and review of adoption file and generating a report of non-identifying information.
(4) Adoption Fingerprint Processing (paid by adoptive parent(s) - Assists attorneys and parents with retrieval and processing of state and federal criminal background checks.
(5) Foreign Jurisdiction Social Study Investigation Request (paid by individual residing outside of the court's jurisdiction) - Court of foreign jurisdiction (outside of Cook County) informally requests that OFSS conduct a child custody social study investigation of a cook county resident that includes interviews of all house hold household residents, Cook County criminal background checks and DCFS background checks and retrieval of school progress reports.
(6) Adoption Social Study Investigation Fee (per child) (Based on annual income of, and paid by, adoptive parent(s) - Annual income shall be verified by either a current federal or state tax return or current wages and tax statements, e.g.,...
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