North Carolina General Statutes
Article 3 - Adoption of Minors.
§ 48-3-202 - Direct placement for adoption.

48-3-202. Direct placement for adoption.
(a) In a direct placement, a parent or guardian must personally select a prospective adoptive parent, but a parent or guardian may obtain assistance from another person or entity, or an adoption facilitator, in locating or evaluating a prospective adoptive parent, subject to the limitations of Article 10 of this Chapter.
(b) Information about a prospective adoptive parent shall be provided to a prospective placing parent or guardian by the prospective adoptive parent, the prospective adoptive parent's attorney, or a person or entity assisting the parent or guardian. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, this information shall include the preplacement assessment prepared pursuant to Part 3 of this Article, and may include additional information requested by the parent or guardian. The agency preparing the preplacement assessment may redact from the preplacement assessment the information described in G.S. 48-3-303(c)(12). (1995, c. 457, s. 2; 2001-150, s. 6; 2015-54, s. 6.)

Structure North Carolina General Statutes

North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 48 - Adoptions

Article 3 - Adoption of Minors.

§ 48-3-100 - Application of Article.

§ 48-3-201 - Who may place minors for adoption.

§ 48-3-202 - Direct placement for adoption.

§ 48-3-203 - Agency placement adoption.

§ 48-3-204 - Recruitment of adoptive parents.

§ 48-3-205 - Disclosure of background information.

§ 48-3-206 - Affidavit of parentage.

§ 48-3-207 - Interstate placements.

§ 48-3-301 - Preplacement assessment required.

§ 48-3-302 - Request for preplacement assessment.

§ 48-3-303 - Content and timing of preplacement assessment.

§ 48-3-304 - Fees for preplacement assessment.

§ 48-3-305 - Agency disposition of preplacement assessments.

§ 48-3-306 - Favorable preplacement assessments.

§ 48-3-307 - Assessments completed after placement.

§ 48-3-308 - Response to unfavorable preplacement assessment.

§ 48-3-309 - Mandatory preplacement criminal checks of prospective adoptive parents seeking to adopt a minor who is in the custody or placement responsibility of a county department of social services and mandatory preplacement criminal checks of all...

§ 48-3-401 - "Health care facility" and "attending practitioner" defined.

§ 48-3-402 - Authorization required to transfer physical custody.

§ 48-3-501 - Petitioner entitled to custody in direct placement adoptions.

§ 48-3-502 - Agency entitled to custody in placement by agency.

§ 48-3-601 - Persons whose consent to adoption is required.

§ 48-3-602 - Consent of incompetent parents.

§ 48-3-603 - Persons whose consent is not required.

§ 48-3-604 - Execution of consenttiming.

§ 48-3-605 - Execution of consentprocedures.

§ 48-3-606 - Content of consent; mandatory provisions.

§ 48-3-607 - Consequences of consent.

§ 48-3-608 - Revocation of consent.

§ 48-3-609 - Challenges to validity of consent.

§ 48-3-610 - Collateral agreements.

§ 48-3-701 - Individuals who may relinquish minor; timing.

§ 48-3-702 - Procedures for relinquishment.

§ 48-3-703 - Content of relinquishment; mandatory provisions.

§ 48-3-704 - Content of relinquishment; optional provisions.

§ 48-3-705 - Consequences of relinquishment.

§ 48-3-706 - Revocation of relinquishments.

§ 48-3-707 - Challenges to validity of relinquishments.