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2004 SESSION

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SB 616 Adoption; requirements for parental placement.

Introduced by: Jay O'Brien | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Parental placement adoptions. Provides that when a licensed child-placing agency or a local board of social services accepts custody of a child for the purpose of placing the child with adoptive parents designated by the birth parents or a person other than a licensed child-placing agency or local board, either the parental placement adoption provisions or the agency adoption provisions will apply to the placement at the election of the birth parent. The agency or local board shall provide information to the birth parents regarding the parental placement adoption and the agency adoption provisions in order to give the birth parents the opportunity to make an informed choice. Current parental placement adoption law requires the simultaneous meeting of the birth and adoptive parents during the home study and the presence of both parties at the consent hearing in juvenile and domestic relations court. This bill will provide for nondisclosed agency adoptions where the birth parent or a person other than a licensed child-placing agency or local board designates the adoptive parents.


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