Adoption forms

Form name	Form number	About the form
📘 Informational form: How to Adopt a Child in California	ADOPT-050-INFO	This form tells you about adoptions. You don't fill it out.
🟥 Required form: Adoption Request	ADOPT-200	This form tells the judge about you and your child.
🟥 Required form: Adoption Agreement	ADOPT-210	This form tells the judge that you and your child (if they are 12 or older) agree to the adoption. Fill it out, but wait to sign it until the judge tells you to.
🟥 Required form: Adoption Order	ADOPT-215	The judge signs this form to show that your adoption is approved.
🟥 Required form: Indian Child Inquiry Attachment	ICWA-010(A)	This form tells the judge that you asked if the child may be an Indian child.
🟥 Required form: Parental Notification of Indian Status	ICWA-020	You must fill out one form for each birth parent. This form shows that each parent was asked if the child may be an Indian child.
🟧 If needed form: Adoption of Indian Child	ADOPT-220	This form tells the judge about you and your Indian child.
🟧 If needed form: Parent of Indian Child Agrees to End Parental Rights	ADOPT-225	This form tells the judge that the Indian child's birth parents agree to end their parental rights.
🟥 Required form: Adoption Expenses	ADOPT-230	This form lists the costs you paid for your child's adoption.
🟧 If needed form: Contact After Adoption Agreement	ADOPT-310	This form tells the judge how your child's birth family can stay in touch with your child.
🟧 If needed form: Request to: Enforce, Change, End Contact After Adoption Agreement	ADOPT-315	This form tells the court that contact after the adoption isn’t happening, or that it needs to change or stop. You can only use this form after everyone in the agreement has tried to fix the problem with a mediator or another dispute resolution program.
🟧 If needed form: Answer to Request to: Enforce, Change, End Contact After Adoption Agreement	ADOPT-320	This form tells the court and the other side that you got a copy of the Contact After Adoption Agreement (form ADOPT-310) and the Request to: Enforce, Change, End Contact After Adoption Agreement (form ADOPT-315). It also says whether you agree or disagree with the request.
🟧 If needed form: Judge’s Order to: Enforce, Change, End Contact After Adoption Agreement	ADOPT-325	This form shows the court’s decision to enforce, change, or end the contact after adoption agreement.

Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) forms

Form name	Form number	About the form
📘 Informational form: Information Sheet on Indian Child Inquiry Attachment and Notice of Child Custody Proceeding for Indian Child	ICWA-005-INFO	This sheet gives information to help you fill out forms to find out if a child may be an Indian child. If so, it explains how to give formal notice about the custody proceedings.
🟥 Required form: Indian Child Inquiry Attachment	ICWA-010(A)	This form tells the judge that you asked if the child may be an Indian child.
🟥 Required form: Parental Notification of Indian Status	ICWA-020	You must fill out one form for each birth parent. This form shows that each parent was asked if the child may be an Indian child.
🟧 If needed form: Notice of Child Custody Proceeding for Indian Child	ICWA-030	This form tells an Indian tribe that a child in the case may be a member. It includes family background information so the tribe can decide if the child is a member or eligible to become one.
🟦 Optional form: Attachment to Notice of Child Custody Proceeding for Indian Child	ICWA-030(A)	Use this attachment with form ICWA-030 to list any extra tribes or bands.
🟦 Optional form: Notice of Designation of Tribal Representative and Notice of Intervention in a Court Proceeding Involving an Indian Child	ICWA-040	An Indian tribe uses this form to tell the court who can represent the tribe in a case involving a child who is a member of that tribe.
🟦 Optional form: Notice of Petition and Petition to Transfer Case Involving an Indian Child to Tribal Jurisdiction	ICWA-050	An Indian tribe, a parent of an Indian child, or an Indian custodian uses this form to ask the court to move a custody case to the tribe’s court.
🟧 If needed form: Order on Petition to Transfer Case Involving an Indian Child to Tribal Jurisdiction	ICWA-060	The court uses this form to record its decision on a request to move a custody case for an Indian child to tribal court.