Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 19-8-20. Forwarding of Decree, Report, and Subsequent Orders to Department; Issuance of Adoption Certificate; Use as Evidence

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“This is to certify that (names of each adopting parent) have obtained a decree of adoption for (full name of adoptee and date of birth of adoptee) in the Superior Court of County, Georgia, on the day of ,as shown by the court’s records (adoption file number). Given under the hand and seal of said court, this the day of , . Clerk ”
History. Code 1981, § 19-8-20 , enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1572, § 5; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1324, § 4; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1640, § 8; Ga. L. 2018, p. 19, § 1-1/HB 159; Ga. L. 2020, p. 493, § 19/SB 429.
The 2018 amendment, effective September 1, 2018, inserted a comma following “the adoption” in the middle of the second sentence of subsection (a); substituted “individual” for “person” twice in subsection (b); in subsection (c), substituted “shall conform substantially to” for “shall be in substantially” in the introductory paragraph, inserted quotes around the form, and substituted “adoptee and date of birth of adoptee” for “adopted child” in the middle of the form.
The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, revised punctuation in subsection (c).

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