ADOPT-315 Request to: Enforce, Change, End 
Contact After Adoption Agreement

Clerk stamps date here when form is filed.

Your name(s):
a.
b.
Relationship to child:
Your address (skip this if you have a lawyer):
Street:
City:
Your phone number:
Your lawyer, (if you have one) (name, address, phone number, and 
State Bar number):  

State:

Zip:

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Child's name (if known):

Child’s adopted name (if known):
Date of birth:

Age:

I/We want to (check one): 
an existing Contact After Adoption Agreement.

Enforce

Change

End

Fill in court name and street address:

Superior Court of California, County of

Court fills in case number when form is filed.

Case Number:

The judge will not look at your request unless you and the other people who signed ADOPT-310 first try 
to come to an agreement using a dispute resolution program, like mediation.

List all people who signed the original Contact After Adoption Agreement (form ADOPT-310).
If the agreement was confidential, write “Confidential” instead of the person’s name.

Name/Relationship to child:

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3

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a.

b.

c.

d.

Notice to people listed in       who are served with this form: 

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The person who filed this form is asking the court to enforce, change, or end your Contact After Adoption 
Agreement. If you do not agree with what the person is asking for, you need to file ADOPT-320 within 30 
days after you receive this form.

Judicial Council of California, www.courts.ca.gov   
Revised January 1, 2018, Mandatory Form   
Family Code, §§ 8616.5, 8714.5;  
Welfare and Institutions Code, § 366.26 

Request to: Enforce, Change, End Contact 
After Adoption Agreement

ADOPT-315, Page 1 of 2

A copy of ADOPT-310 (Contact After Adoption Agreement)
A copy of the signed, written agreement about Contact After Adoption, if there is one
Proof of Service showing this form was served on each person in       , along with a blank answer form 
(ADOPT-320)

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Attach to this request:

Your name:

Case Number:

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If any person in       was not served, you must explain in writing why he or she was not served.  
Check below, if true:
a.

I do not know the names of the other people who signed the original Contact After Adoption Agreement, so I 
could not serve them.
The other people who signed the original Contact After Adoption Agreement (ADOPT-310) agree with what 
I am asking in this request and have signed ADOPT-320.

b.

If you want to give more explanation, attach a sheet of paper and write “ADOPT-315, Item 6” at the top.

7 Remember: The judge will not look at your request until all people who signed ADOPT-310 have tried to come to 

an agreement using mediation or other form of dispute resolution.

I/We have tried to resolve these issues by using a dispute resolution program, like mediation.

I have tried to fix these problems, but the other party refuses to participate in a dispute resolution program, like 
mediation. I am asking for a court date for the judge to review this case.

8 Check one of the boxes below:

I/We ask the court to:
a.

Enforce ADOPT-310. Explain how the original agreement has not been followed:

If you need more space, attach a sheet of paper and write “ADOPT-315, Item 8—Enforce, Change, or End 310” at 
the top.

Change ADOPT-310. Describe the changes you want and how these changes will be good for the child:

If you need more space, attach a sheet of paper and write “ADOPT-315, Item 8—Enforce, Change, or End 310” at 
the top.

End ADOPT-310. Explain why you want to end the agreement and how ending the agreement will be good 
for the child:

If you need more space, attach a sheet of paper and write “ADOPT-315, Item 8—Enforce, Change, or End 310” at 
the top.
Number of pages attached:

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I/We declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the information in this form is 
true and correct, which means if I lie on this form, I am guilty of a crime.

Type or print your name and relationship to child

Sign your name

Type or print your name and relationship to child

Sign your name

Revised January 1, 2018

Request to: Enforce, Change, End Contact After 
Adoption Agreement

ADOPT-315, Page 2 of 2

b.

c.

Date:

Date: