Section 9324.  


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  • Both the prospective adoptive parent and the proposed adoptee shall appear at the hearing in person, unless an appearance is impossible, in which event an appearance may be made for either or both of the persons by counsel, empowered in writing to make the appearance.

(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)