§ 16005

California Welfare and Institutions Code · 2026 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · California

Siblings shall be assigned to the same social worker when there is a prospective adoptive family that intends to adopt the children as a sibling group, unless the responsible local agency finds that assigning the siblings to the same social worker would not be in the best interest of the child or the siblings or the operation of the county office.

(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 353, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2002.)

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