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Orson Mozes pleads guilty, awaits sentencing
A former Montecito businessman who swindled $800,000 from 59 hopeful parents through his adoption business, pleaded guilty in Superior Court yesterday to 17 felonies and a white-collar crime enhancement.
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Although the man won’t be sentenced until July 14, Senior Deputy District Attorney Paula Waldman said he most likely would be sentenced to three years and four [...]
Laws & Regulations
Ukraine is not party to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption.
Offices of Children’s Issues: Ukraine Country Info
US Embassy Ukraine: Adoption Info
Notice on SDAPRC Unused Quotas
From the US Embassy Kiev:
On October 14, 2008 the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports published official Order #3899 approving revised procedures for submission of new adoption dossiers from foreign citizens in the fourth quarter of 2008. The annual adoption dossiers quota for 2008 previously had been set at 1,453. Although all of these were [...]
Adoption Notice: New Adoption Law
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Office of Children’s Issues
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April 28, 2008
On April 21, 2008 the President of Ukraine signed law #258–VІ, On Legislative Amendments to Ukraine’s Laws (regarding adoptions). The Law came into full effect on April 24, 2008 upon its publication in the official newspaper of Ukraine’s Parliament. This new law introduces the [...]
Notice regarding adoption quotas in Ukraine from the American Embassy in Kyiv
January 16, 2008
The U.S. Department of State has issued a public notice regarding
adoption quotas in Ukraine from the American Embassy in Kyiv:
“On December 18, 2007, the Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports issued Decree
# 4939 approving the number of new adoption dossiers from foreign citizens that
can be accepted by the Ukrainian State Department for Adoption [...]
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