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2019 SESSION


CHAPTER 377
An Act to amend and reenact § 63.2-1242.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to adoption by relative.
[H 2208]
Approved March 14, 2019

 

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 63.2-1242.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 63.2-1242.1. Relative adoption.

A. For the purposes of this chapter, a "close relative placement" shall be an adoption by the child's grandparent, great-grandparent, adult nephew or niece, adult brother or sister, adult uncle or aunt, or adult great uncle or great aunt, stepparent, adult stepbrother or stepsisters, or other adult relatives of the child by marriage or adoption.

B. In a close relative placement the court may accept the written and signed consent of the birth parent(s) that is signed under oath and acknowledged by an officer authorized by law to take such acknowledgements acknowledgments.