Arkansas Code
Chapter 9 - Adoption
Subchapter 2 - Revised Uniform Adoption Act

§ 9-9-201. Short title - This subchapter may be cited as the “Revised Uniform Adoption...

§ 9-9-202. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

§ 9-9-203. Who may be adopted - Any individual may be adopted.

§ 9-9-204. Who may adopt - The following individuals may adopt: (1) A husband and wife...

§ 9-9-205. Jurisdiction — Venue — Inconvenient forum — Disclosure of name - (a) Jurisdiction of adoption of minors: (1) The state shall...

§ 9-9-206. Persons required to consent to adoption — Consideration for relinquishing minor for adoption - (a) Unless consent is not required under § 9-9-207, a...

§ 9-9-207. Persons as to whom consent not required - (a) Consent to adoption is not required of: (1) a...

§ 9-9-208. How consent is executed - (a) The required consent to adoption shall be executed at...

§ 9-9-209. Withdrawal of consent - (a) A consent to adoption cannot be withdrawn after the...

§ 9-9-210. Petition for adoption - (a) A petition for adoption signed and verified by the...

§ 9-9-211. Report of petitioner's expenditures - (a) Except as specified in subsection (b) of this section,...

§ 9-9-212. Hearing on petition — Requirements - (a) (1) Before any hearing on a petition, the period...

§ 9-9-213. Required residence of minor - (a) A final decree of adoption shall not be issued...

§ 9-9-214. Appearance — Continuance — Disposition of petition - (a) The petitioner and the individual to be adopted shall...

§ 9-9-215. Effect of decree of adoption - (a) A final decree of adoption and an interlocutory decree...

§ 9-9-216. Appeal from and validation of adoption decree - (a) An appeal from any final order or decree rendered...

§ 9-9-217. Confidentiality of hearings and records - (a) Notwithstanding any other law concerning public hearings and records:...

§ 9-9-218. Recognition of foreign decrees affecting adoption - A decree of court terminating the relationship of parent and...

§ 9-9-219. Application for new birth record - Upon entry of a final decree of adoption or an...

§ 9-9-220. Relinquishment and termination of parent and child relationship - (a) With the exception of the duty to pay child...

§ 9-9-221. Uniformity of interpretation - This subchapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to...

§ 9-9-222. Repeal and effective date - (a) The following acts and laws and parts of laws...

§ 9-9-223. Termination of rights of nonparental relatives - Except as provided in this subchapter with regard to parental...

§ 9-9-224. Child born to unmarried mother - In all cases involving a child born to a mother...