RI S2596

Requires family courts to enter a decree granting post-separation sibling visitation and contact rights when children are separated through adoption, foster placement, or guardianship

Adoptive parents, foster parents, and guardians must cooperate with children's requests for sibling visitation, court orders, and administrative investigations to facilitate contact

Courts may grant sibling privileges when it serves the child's best interests, there is significant emotional attachment between siblings, and parties negotiate a visitation agreement in good faith

Children at least 12 years old have the right to be heard by family court regarding sibling visitation privileges

Department of Children, Youth and Families must recommend sibling privileges unless investigation finds a sibling may be at risk of physical or mental harm from another sibling