Persons who are caring for a hard-to-place child on a foster parent basis and who have applied to adopt the hard-to-place child and to receive payments for the care and support of the hard-to-place child shall be evaluated as to their suitability as adoptive parents by means of an adoptive home study. Persons who are caring for a hard-to-place child in the state's custody and who wish to be appointed legal guardians of the child under AS 13.26.132, and to receive payments for the care and support of the child, shall be evaluated as to their suitability as guardians by means of a guardianship study. A home study or guardianship study shall be made by the commissioner's adoption staff or on the commissioner's behalf by an authorized agency or individual that provides adoption services.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 25. Marital and Domestic Relations
Sec. 25.23.005. Construction of chapter; rights of persons affected by adoption.
Sec. 25.23.010. Who may be adopted.
Sec. 25.23.020. Who may adopt.
Sec. 25.23.040. Persons required to consent to adoption.
Sec. 25.23.050. Persons as to whom consent and notice not required.
Sec. 25.23.060. Execution of consent; consent as power of attorney.
Sec. 25.23.070. Withdrawal of consent.
Sec. 25.23.080. Petition for adoption.
Sec. 25.23.090. Report of petitioner's expenditures.
Sec. 25.23.100. Notice of petition, investigation, and hearing.
Sec. 25.23.110. Required residence of minor.
Sec. 25.23.125. Preference of minor to be adopted; guardian ad litem; protective orders.
Sec. 25.23.127. Adult family member preference to adopt.
Sec. 25.23.130. Effect of adoption decree; effect of termination of parental rights.
Sec. 25.23.140. Appeal and validation of adoption decree.
Sec. 25.23.150. Confidential nature of hearings and records in adoption proceedings.
Sec. 25.23.160. Recognition of foreign decree affecting adoption.
Sec. 25.23.170. Applications for birth certificates.
Sec. 25.23.173. Indian child adoption reports.
Sec. 25.23.175. Findings concerning persons born outside the United States.
Sec. 25.23.180. Relinquishment and termination of parent and child relationships.
Sec. 25.23.185. Records and information.
Sec. 25.23.190. Subsidy for hard-to-place child.
Sec. 25.23.200. Investigation of home for subsidized hard-to-place child.