48-3-610. Collateral agreements.
If a person executing a consent and the prospective adoptive parent or parents enter into an agreement regarding visitation, communication, support, and any other rights and duties with respect to the minor, this agreement shall not be a condition precedent to the consent itself, failure to perform shall not invalidate a consent already given, and the agreement itself shall not be enforceable. (1995, c. 457, s. 2.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
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.
§ 48-3-401 - "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.