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Code · Montana · Title 42 — Adoption · Chapter 2 · Part 3

42-2-302. Persons whose consent not required.

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42-2-302 . Persons whose consent not required. Consent to adoption of a child is not required from:
(1)an individual whose parental relationship to the child has been judicially terminated for unfitness or has been determined not to exist or who has waived parental rights;
(2)a parent who has been judicially declared incompetent;
(3)an individual who has not been married to the mother of the child and who, after the conception of the child, executes a notarized statement denying paternity or a notarized statement acknowledging paternity and denying any interest in the child; or
(4)the personal representative of a deceased parent's estate.
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