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CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC RELATIONS. · ARTICLE 22. ADOPTION.
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§48-22-101. Applicability of definitions.
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§48-22-102. Abandonment defined.
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§48-22-103. Adoptive parents, adoptive mother or adoptive father defined.
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§48-22-104. Agency defined.
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§48-22-105. Birth father defined.
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§48-22-106. Birth mother defined.
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§48-22-107. Birth parents defined.
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§48-22-108. Consent defined.
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§48-22-109. Determined father defined.
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§48-22-110. Legal father defined.
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§48-22-111. Marital child defined.
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§48-22-112. Nonmarital child defined.
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§48-22-113. Outsider father defined.
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§48-22-114. Putative father defined.
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§48-22-115. Relinquishment defined.
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§48-22-116. Stepparent adoption defined.
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§48-22-117. Unknown father defined.
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§48-22-201. Persons who may petition for decree of adoption.
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§48-22-301. Persons whose consent or relinquishment is required; exceptions.
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§48-22-302. Timing and execution of consent or relinquishment.
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§48-22-303. Content of consent or relinquishment.
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§48-22-304. Consent or relinquishment by infants.
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§48-22-305. Revocation of consent or relinquishment for adoption.
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§48-22-306. Conduct presumptively constituting abandonment.
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§48-22-401. Delivery of child for adoption; written recital of circumstances.
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§48-22-501. Filing of petition for adoption.
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§48-22-502. Petition and appendix.
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§48-22-601. Who shall receive notice.
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§48-22-602. How notice is to be served.
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§48-22-603. Notice to an unknown father.
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§48-22-701. Proceedings.
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§48-22-702. Recordation of order; fees; disposition of records; names of adopting parents and persons previously entitled to parental rights not to be disclosed; disclosure of identifying and nonidentifying information; certificate for state registrar of vital statistics; birth certificate.
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§48-22-703. Effect of order as to relations of parents and child and as to rights of inheritance; intestacy of adopted child.
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§48-22-704. Finality of order; challenges to order of adoption.
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§48-22-801. Adoption of adults.
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§48-22-802. Contracts limiting or restraining adoptions.
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Repealed. Acts, 2011 Reg. Sess., Ch. 51.
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§48-22-901. Recognition of foreign adoption decree.
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§48-22-902. Filing of petition for recognition of foreign adoption decree.
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§48-22-903. Proceedings for recognition of foreign adoption decree.
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