CHAPTER 2. ADOPTION OF CHILD
- Part 1. Policy and Legislative Intent
- Part 2. Putative Father Registration
- 42-2-201. Definitions.
- 42-2-202. Putative father registry.
- 42-2-203. Purpose of registry.
- 42-2-204. Presumed knowledge of pregnancy -- duty to register to be afforded notice -- putative and presumed fathers.
- 42-2-205. Registration.
- 42-2-206. When putative father to register -- actual knowledge of pregnancy not required.
- 42-2-207. How registration submitted.
- 42-2-208. Burden of putative father to preserve rights upon receipt of notice.
- 42-2-209. Presumption created -- admissibility in other proceedings.
- 42-2-210. through reserved.
- 42-2-214. Duties of department.
- 42-2-215. Information maintained in registry.
- 42-2-216. Storage of data.
- 42-2-217. Registry search -- request -- affidavit.
- 42-2-218. Duties of department upon receipt of request.
- 42-2-219. through reserved.
- 42-2-222. Failure of agency to post notice.
- 42-2-223. Revocation of registration.
- 42-2-224. Certified copy of registration form to be furnished upon request.
- 42-2-225. Information confidential.
- 42-2-226. Registration of false information -- criminal and civil penalties
- 42-2-227. through reserved.
- 42-2-230. Responsibility of each party to protect interests -- putative fathers -- fraud no defense.
- Part 3. Consent for Adoption
- Part 4. Voluntary Relinquishment and Consent to Adopt
- 42-2-401. Child available for adoption -- voluntary acts of parents.
- 42-2-402. Voluntary relinquishment -- validity.
- 42-2-403. Arrearages of child support -- responsibility to child.
- 42-2-404. Who may relinquish -- to whom.
- 42-2-405. Relinquishment by minor parent -- separate legal counsel in direct parental placement adoption.
- 42-2-406. and reserved.
- 42-2-408. Time and prerequisites for execution of relinquishment and consent to adoption -- copy of preplacement evaluation -- notarization.
- 42-2-409. Counseling requirements.
- 42-2-410. Revocation of relinquishment and consent.
- 42-2-411. Conditional relinquishment and consent.
- 42-2-412. Content of relinquishment and consent to adopt.
- 42-2-413. Consequences of relinquishment and consent to adopt.
- 42-2-414. through reserved.
- 42-2-417. Grounds for court to set aside relinquishment and consent.
- 42-2-418. Remedy when relinquishment and consent to adopt revoked or set aside -- expediency.
- 42-2-419. and reserved.
- 42-2-421. Notarized denial of paternity -- no entitlement to notice.
- 42-2-422. Notarized acknowledgment of paternity and denial of interest in custody -- no entitlement to notice.
- Part 5. Involuntary Termination of Parental Rights
- Part 6. Petition to Terminate Parental Rights
- 42-2-601. Venue.
- 42-2-602. Necessity for parental rights to be terminated.
- 42-2-603. Petition for termination of parental rights.
- 42-2-604. Contents of petition for termination of parental rights.
- 42-2-605. Notice of hearing -- service.
- 42-2-606. Hearing on petition to terminate parental rights.
- 42-2-607. Grounds for termination of parental rights.
- 42-2-608. Finding of unfitness.
- 42-2-609. Determination that no parent and child relationship exists.
- 42-2-610. Putative father -- termination based upon failure to establish substantial relationship.
- 42-2-611. Irrevocable waiver of parental rights.
- 42-2-612. through reserved.
- 42-2-616. Appearance of parent at hearing -- determination of custody.
- 42-2-617. Effect of order terminating parental rights.
- 42-2-618. Appeal.
- 42-2-619. Expediency.
- 42-2-620. Finality.