Colorado Code
Part 2 - Adoption
§ 19-5-201. Who May Be Adopted

Any child legally available for adoption as provided in section 19-5-203, under eighteen years of age, and either present in the state at the time the petition for adoption is filed or under the jurisdiction of a court in Colorado for at least six months may be adopted. Upon approval of the court, a person eighteen years of age or older and under twenty-one years of age may be adopted as a child, and all provisions of this part 2 referring to the adoption of a child shall apply to such a person.
Source: L. 87: Entire title R&RE, p. 805, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2017: Entire section amended, (HB 17-1304), ch. 339, p. 1807, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section was contained in a title that was repealed and reenacted in 1987. Provisions of this section, as it existed in 1987, are similar to those contained in 19-4-105 as said section existed in 1986, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this title.

Structure Colorado Code

Colorado Code

Title 19 - Children's Code

Article 5 - Relinquishment and Adoption

Part 2 - Adoption

§ 19-5-200.2. Legislative Declaration

§ 19-5-201. Who May Be Adopted

§ 19-5-202. Who May Adopt

§ 19-5-202.5. Adoption Hearings - Termination Appeals - Court Docket Priority - Exceptions

§ 19-5-203. Availability for Adoption

§ 19-5-204. Venue

§ 19-5-205. Adoption Decree of Foreign Country Approved

§ 19-5-205.5. Nonpublic Agency Interstate and Foreign Adoptions - Legislative Declaration - Authority for State Department to Select Agencies

§ 19-5-206. Placement for Purposes of Adoption

§ 19-5-207. Written Consent and Home Study Report for Public Adoptions - Fingerprint-Based Criminal History Record Checks - Investigation - Rules

§ 19-5-207.3. Placement of Sibling Groups

§ 19-5-207.5. Legislative Declaration - Standardized Home Studies - Adoptive Family Resource Registry - Rules

§ 19-5-208. Petition for Adoption - Open Adoption - Post-Adoption Contact Agreement

§ 19-5-209. Petition - Written Home Study Reports

§ 19-5-210. Hearing on Petition

§ 19-5-211. Legal Effects of Final Decree

§ 19-5-212. Copies of Order of Adoption - to Whom Given

§ 19-5-213. Compensation for Placing Child Prohibited

§ 19-5-213.5. Unauthorized Advertising for Adoption Purposes - Exceptions - Penalty - Definitions

§ 19-5-214. Limitation on Annulment of Adoption - Best Interests Standard

§ 19-5-216. Increased Access for Adoption - Study

§ 19-5-217. Enforcement or Termination of Post-Adoption Contact Agreement