Oklahoma Statutes
Title 10. Children
§10-7510-3.2. Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance.

This Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance, hereinafter called "the compact", is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:

ARTICLE I. FINDINGS
The party states find that:
(1) In order to obtain adoptive families for children with special needs, prospective adoptive parents must be assured of substantial assistance (usually on a continuing basis) in meeting the high costs of supporting and providing for the special needs and services required by such children.
(2) The states have a fundamental interest in promoting adoption for children with special needs because the care, emotional stability and general support and encouragement required by such children to surmount their physical, mental or emotional conditions can be best, and often only, obtained in family homes with a normal parent-child relationship.
(3) The states obtain advantages from providing adoption assistance because the customary alternative is for the state to defray the entire cost of meeting all the needs of such children.
(4) The special needs involved are for the emotional, physical maintenance of the child, and medical support and services.
(5) The necessary assurance of adoption assistance for children with special needs, in those instances where children and adoptive parents are in states other than the one undertaking to provide the assistance, is to establish and maintain suitable substantive guarantees and workable procedures for interstate payments to assist with the necessary child maintenance, procurement of services, and medical assistance.
ARTICLE II. PURPOSES
The purposes of this compact are to:
(1) Strengthen protections for the interest of the children with special needs on behalf of whom adoption assistance is committed to be paid, when such children are in or move to states other than the one committed to make adoption assistance payments.
(2) Provide substantive assurances and procedures which will promote the delivery of medical and other services on an interstate basis to children through programs of adoption assistance established by the laws of the party states.
ARTICLE III. DEFINITIONS
As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires a different construction:
(1) "Child with special needs" means a minor who has not yet attained the age at which the state normally discontinues children's services or twenty-one (21) years, where the state determines that the child's mental or physical handicaps warrant the continuation of assistance, for whom the state has determined the following:
(A) That the child cannot or should not be returned to the home of his or her parents;
(B) That there exists with respect to the child a specific factor or condition (such as his or her ethnic background, age, or membership in a minority or sibling group, or the presence of factors such as medical condition or physical, mental, or emotional handicaps) because of which it is reasonable to conclude that such child cannot be placed with adoptive parents without providing adoption assistance.
(C) That, except where it would be against the best interests of the child because of such factors as the existence of significant emotional ties with prospective adoptive parents while in the care of such parents as a foster child, a reasonable, but unsuccessful, effort has been made to place the child with appropriate adoptive parents without providing adoption assistance payments.
(2) "Adoption assistance" means the payment or payments for maintenance of a child, which payment or payments are made or committed to be made pursuant to the adoption assistance program established by the laws of a party state.
(3) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or a Territory or Possession of the United States.
(4) "Adoption assistance state" means the state that is signatory to an adoption assistance agreement in a particular case.
(5) "Residence state" means the state of which the child is a resident by virtue of the residence of the adoptive parents.
(6) "Parents" means either the singular or plural of the word "parent".
ARTICLE IV. ADOPTION ASSISTANCE
(1) Each state shall determine the amounts of adoption assistance and other aid which it will give to children with special needs and their adoptive parents in accordance with its own laws and programs. The adoption assistance and other aid may be made subject to periodic re-evaluation of eligibility by the adoption assistance state in accordance with its laws. The provisions of this article and of Article V are subject to the limitation set forth in this paragraph.
(2) The adoption assistance and medical assistance services and benefits to which this compact applies are those provided to children with special needs and their adoptive parents from the time of the final decree of adoption or the interlocutory decree of adoption, as the case may be, pursuant to the laws of the adoptive assistance state. In addition to the content required by subsequent provisions of this article for adoption assistance agreements, each such agreement shall state whether the initial adoption assistance period thereunder begins with the final or interlocutory decree of adoption. Aid provided by party states to children with special needs during the preadoptive placement period or earlier shall be under the foster care or other programs of the states and, except as provided in paragraph 3 of this article, shall not be governed by the provisions of this compact.
(3) Every case of adoption assistance shall include an adoption assistance agreement between the adoptive parents and the agency of the state undertaking to provide the adoption assistance. Every such agreement shall contain provisions for the fixing of actual or potential interstate aspects of the adoption assistance, as follows:
(A) An express commitment that the adoption assistance shall be payable without regard for the state of residence of the adoptive parents, both at the outset of the agreement period and at all times during its continuance.
(B) A provision setting forth with particularity the types of child care and services toward which the adoption assistance state will make payments.
(C) A commitment to make medical assistance available to the child in accordance with Article V of this compact.
(D) An express declaration that the agreement is for the benefit of the child, the adoptive parents and the state and that it is enforceable by any or all of them.
(4) Any services or benefits provided by the residence state and the adoption assistance state for a child may be facilitated by the party states on each other's behalf. To this end, the personnel of the child welfare agencies of the party states will assist each other and beneficiaries of adoption assistance agreements with other party states in implementing benefits expressly included in adoption assistance agreements. However, it is recognized and agreed that in general children to whom adoption assistance agreements apply are eligible for benefits under the child welfare, education, rehabilitation, mental health and other programs of their state of residence on the same basis as other resident children.
(5) Adoption assistance payments, when made on behalf of a child who is subject to the jurisdiction of this state but residing in another state, shall be made on the same basis and in the same amounts as they would be made if the child were residing in this state; provided, however, adoption assistance agreements with families residing in other states signed before October 1, 2009, may be continued.
(6) Effective July 1, 2010, for good cause shown, the Director of the Department of Human Services or designee may approve adoption assistance payments on behalf of a child subject to the jurisdiction of this state but residing in another state, up to the maximum foster care reimbursement allowable in the state of residence.
ARTICLE V. MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
(1) Children for whom a party state is committed in accordance with the terms of an adoption assistance agreement to make adoption assistance payments are eligible for medical assistance during the entire period for which such payments are to be provided. Upon application therefor by the adoptive parents of a child on whose behalf a party state's duly constituted authorities have entered into an adoption assistance agreement, the adoptive parents shall receive a medical assistance identification made out in the child's name. The identification shall be issued by the medical assistance program of the residence state and shall entitle the child to the same benefits, pursuant to the same procedures, as any other child who is a resident of the state and covered by medical assistance, whether or not the adoptive parents are eligible for medical assistance.
(2) The identification shall bear no indication that an adoption assistance agreement with another state is the basis for issuance. However, if the identification is issued on account of an outstanding adoption assistance agreement to which another state is a signatory, the records of the issuing state and the adoption assistance state shall show the fact, shall contain a copy of the adoption assistance agreement and any amendment or replacement therefor, and all other pertinent information. The adoption assistance and medical assistance programs of the adoption assistance state shall be notified of the identification issuance.
(3) A state which has issued a medical assistance identification pursuant to this compact, which identification is valid and currently in force, shall accept, process and pay medical assistance claims thereon as on any other medical assistance eligibilities of residents.
(4) An adoption assistance state which provides medical services or benefits to children covered by its adoption assistance agreements, which services or benefits are not provided for those children under the medical assistance program of the residence state, may enter into cooperative arrangements with the residence state to facilitate the delivery and administration of such services and benefits. However, any such arrangements shall not be inconsistent with this compact nor shall they relieve the residence state of any obligation to provide medical assistance in accordance with its laws and this compact.
(5) A child whose residence is changed from one party state to another party state shall be eligible for medical assistance under the medical assistance program of the new state of residence.
ARTICLE VI. JOINDER AND WITHDRAWAL
(1) This compact shall be open to joinder by any state. It shall enter into force as to a state when its duly constituted and empowered authority has executed it.
(2) In order that the provisions of this compact may be accessible to and known by the general public and so that its status as law in each of the party states may be fully implemented, the full text of the compact, together with a notice of its execution, shall be caused to be published by the authority which has executed it in each party state. Copies of the compact shall be made available upon request made of the executing authority in any state.
(3) Withdrawal from this compact shall be by written notice sent by the authority which executed it to the appropriate officials of all other party states, but no such notice shall take effect until one (1) year after it is given in accordance with the requirements of this paragraph.
(4) All adoption assistance agreements outstanding and to which a party state is signatory at the time when its withdrawal from this compact takes effect shall continue to have the effects given to them pursuant to this compact, until they expire or are terminated in accordance with their provisions. Until such expiration or termination, all beneficiaries of the agreements involved shall continue to have all rights and obligations conferred or imposed by this compact and the withdrawing state shall continue to administer the compact to the extent necessary to accord and implement fully the rights and protections preserved thereby.
Added by Laws 1986, c. 126, § 2, emerg. eff. April 11, 1986. Renumbered from § 62 of this title by Laws 1997, c. 366, § 59, eff. Nov. 1, 1997. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 324, § 3, emerg. eff. June 5, 2010.

Structure Oklahoma Statutes

Oklahoma Statutes

Title 10. Children

§10-6.5. Use of certain words in reference to children born out of wedlock prohibited.

§10-21.10. Child assessment in voluntary out-of-home placement.

§10-22.1. Legislative findings and intent – Foster care by grandparents or other relative.

§10-22.2. Investing in Stronger Oklahoma Families Act – Purpose – Comprehensive strategic plan – Information database – Family resource assistance – Partnerships – Brochure.

§10-24.1. Appointment of volunteer attorneys for indigent children not entitled to representation by Indigent Defense System.

§10-40. Short title.

§10-40.1. Purpose - Policy of state.

§10-40.2. Definitions.

§10-40.3. Application of act - Exemptions - Determination of Indian status.

§10-40.4. Indian child custody proceedings – Notice.

§10-40.5. Emergency removal of Indian child from parent or custodian - Order.

§10-40.6. Placement preference.

§10-40.7. Agreements with Indian tribes - Care and custody of Indian children – Jurisdiction over child custody proceedings.

§10-40.8. Payment of foster care expenses under certain circumstances.

§10-40.9. Records.

§10-80. Appeals.

§10-83. Liability of mother and father to support and educate child - Enforcement - Change of child's surname.

§10-90.4. Children born out of wedlock - Change of name.

§10-90.5. Paternity action or action for arrearage of child support - Visitation rights of noncustodial parent.

§10-91. Authority of district courts.

§10-92. Procedure to confer rights of majority - Petition - Jurisdiction and venue - Decree.

§10-93. Notice of hearing of petition to be given by certified mail and by publication in newspaper.

§10-94. Costs.

§10-114.6. Rehabilitation of juvenile offenders through court supervised work projects.

§10-116. County probation officer - Counties having population of 190,000 or more and city of 100,000 or more.

§10-116a. Appointment - Qualifications - Political activities - Application of act - United States and agencies, powers respecting - Arrests - Information - Seal.

§10-116b. Duties of probation officer - Investigations.

§10-116c. Assistant probation officer - Salary.

§10-116d. Construction of act.

§10-116e. Salary of probation officer.

§10-116f. Secretaries to probation officer - Duties - Salary.

§10-116g. Salaries in counties of over 200,000.

§10-131. Powers of county commissioners - Commitment of children to other institutions, associations or corporations.

§10-132. Tax levy.

§10-133. Board of general supervision - Appointments - Salaries and removal of appointees.

§10-134. Inmates - Eligibility - Appointment and attendance - Terms - Return to parents or guardians.

§10-135. Reports of children not attending school - Notice to parents or guardians - Investigations and reports - Power of district court.

§10-136. Visits by parents, guardians and near relatives.

§10-137. Guardian refusing to maintain child or send him to school - Delivery of child to court - Charge for board and clothing.

§10-151. Control vested in local boards of education.

§10-152. Reports of number of children requiring school facilities.

§10-153. Inclusion of cost of education in school districts' budgets.

§10-154. School superintendents' reports of children attending schools.

§10-170.2. Emergency treatment.

§10-175.1. Legislative intent and purpose.

§10-175.3. Definitions.

§10-175.4. Commission as agent of the state.

§10-175.5. Rules and regulations.

§10-175.7. Powers of Commission.

§10-175.8. Fund - State Treasurer.

§10-175.9. Homes - Right to enter.

§10-175.10. Applications for crippled children's services.

§10-175.12. Oklahoma Children's Hospital.

§10-175.20. Day treatment programs - Definition - Required programs and policies.

§10-361. Santa Claus Commission - Creation - Membership - Christmas presents.

§10-362. Meetings of Santa Clause Commission - Chairperson - Eligible recipients - Gifts and contributions.

§10-363. Claims - Approval and payment.

§10-401. Purpose and policy of law - Minimum standards.

§10-402. Definitions.

§10-403. Exemptions from application of act.

§10-404. Minimum requirements and desirable standards.

§10-404.1. Child care facility permit or license - Criminal history records search - Foster parent eligibility.

§10-404.2. Demarion’s Law – Short title.

§10-404.3. Demarion's Law - Mandatory liability insurance for facilities

§10-405. Necessity and issuance of license – Temporary authorization.

§10-405.1. Comprehensive state plan for child care facilities – Federal requirements – Submission to Legislature.

§10-405.2. Online child care database.

§10-405.3. Online Restricted Registry.

§10-405.4. Education requirements for child care center director – Master teacher – Replacement – Floor space requirements.

§10-405.5. Continuation of license upon inheritance or purchase of a facility.

§10-406. Investigations - Notice of violation – Confidentiality – Anonymous complaint system.

§10-406.1. Indian tribe-operated child care facility - Inspection agreement.

§10-407. Revocation of license or refusal to issue or renew - Emergency action - Citation.

§10-408. Appeals.

§10-409. Injunction.

§10-410. Violations - Punishment.

§10-410.1. Quality of Care Development Fund.

§10-411. Certificate of immunization as condition for admission to day care facility - Waiver.

§10-412. Manner and frequency of immunizations - Enforcement of act.

§10-413. Exemptions.

§10-414. Administration of immunizations - Persons eligible - Indigent persons.

§10-415. Child with reportable contagious disease to be excluded from day care facility.

§10-418. Authority to obtain evidence - Administration of oaths.

§10-420. Child Care Center Bill of Rights.

§10-440. Office of Child Care - Establishment - Qualification for federal child care and development block grant funds - Duties.

§10-441. Termination of act.

§10-452. Transfer of property, contracts and funds.

§10-453. Definitions.

§10-454. Powers and duties of Commission and Director.

§10-455. Laws not inconsistent to remain in effect.

§10-551. Authorization.

§10-552. Status of child.

§10-553. Persons authorized - Consent.

§10-554. Legal status of child or children born as result of heterologous oocyte donation.

§10-555. Rights, obligations and interest of oocyte donor respecting child and child respecting donor.

§10-556. Human embryo transfer and donation – Consents – Legal rights, obligations or interests.

§10-557. Short title - Oklahoma Gestational Agreement Act.

§10-557.1. Policy.

§10-557.2. Definitions.

§10-557.3. Gestational agreement – Legal contract.

§10-557.4. Gestational carrier - Qualifications.

§10-557.5. Necessary parties to agreement - Requirements.

§10-557.6. Agreement requirements - Validation.

§10-557.7. Validated agreement required prior to transfer of gametes or embryos.

§10-557.8. Limited enforceability of an unvalidated agreement.

§10-557.9. Procedure to obtain court validation.

§10-557.10. Required findings to validate an agreement – Court order of validation – Review - Deficiencies.

§10-557.11. Rights of child – Parent-child relationship.

§10-557.12. Notice of birth to be filed with court – Court order.

§10-557.13. Amendments to agreement must be validated.

§10-557.14. Termination of agreement.

§10-557.15. Proceedings governed by Code of Civil Procedure - Confidentiality.

§10-557.16. Venue and jurisdiction.

§10-557.17. Compensation to gestational carrier.

§10-557.18. Donors may be parties to the agreement.

§10-557.19. Gametes or embryos of the gestational carrier or gestational spouse.

§10-557.20. Parents to be listed on certificate of birth.

§10-557.21. Death of intended parent prior to birth of child – Testamentary and inheritance rights.

§10-557.22. Marriage or divorce of a gestational carrier.

§10-557.23. Laboratory or clinical error.

§10-557.24. Breach of agreement.

§10-557.25. Application with other laws.

§10-577. Enactment of compact - Text.

§10-600. Definitions

§10-601.1. Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth - Creation - Membership.

§10-601.2. Chairman - Meetings - Travel expenses - Application of Administrative Procedures Act - Legal counsel.

§10-601.3. Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth - Duties.

§10-601.4. Additional duties and responsibilities of Commission.

§10-601.5. Director - Powers and duties.

§10-601.6. Office of Juvenile System Oversight - Powers, duties and authority.

§10-601.6a. Office of Planning and Coordination for Services to Children and Youth - Duties.

§10-601.6b. State Plan for Services to Children and Youth – Expenditure report – Topic-specific reports.

§10-601.6c. Office of Planning and Coordination for Services to Children and Youth – Report on child homelessness.

§10-601.9. Duties of the Office of Planning and Coordination - Evaluation and review of services to children and youth - Annual report - State Plan for Services to Children and Youth - Contents and publication

§10-601.10. Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth Revolving Fund.

§10-601.11. Community partnership boards for services to children and youth - Membership - Election of coordinators and representatives.

§10-601.12. Community partnership plan for children and youth services.

§10-601.14. Children's Endowment Fund of Oklahoma.

§10-601.20. Children of Incarcerated Parents Task Force.

§10-601.30. Board of Child Abuse Examination - Membership - Officers - Meetings - Quorum.

§10-601.31. Duties of Commission on Children and Youth - Duties of Board - Chief Child Abuse Examiner - Duties.

§10-601.41. Short title.

§10-601.42. Definitions.

§10-601.61. Short title.

§10-601.62. Legislative intent.

§10-601.63. Definitions.

§10-601.64. Duties of the Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth.

§10-601.65. Proposed submission procedures and criteria.

§10-601.66. Short title – Children with Disabilities Comprehensive Systems of Services Fund Act of 2013.

§10-601.67. Children with Disabilities Comprehensive Systems of Services Revolving Fund.

§10-601.68. Not-for-profit foundation.

§10-601.69. Curriculum for abuse-prevention instructional programs.

§10-601.80. Short title - Family Support Accountability Act - Definitions.

§10-601.81. Home visiting programs – Requirements – Objectives – Annual report.

§10-603.1. Short title - Purpose - Implementation.

§10-603.4. Day treatment program standards.

§10-620.1. Purpose of act - Release and transfer of information.

§10-620.2. Appointment of task force - Membership - Duties.

§10-620.3. Agencies to promulgate uniform rules and procedures.

§10-620.4. Contents of rules and procedures.

§10-620.5. Transfer and release of confidential information - Adoption of procedures.

§10-620.6. Guidelines and forms for inspection, release, disclosure, etc. of records.

§10-640. Short title.

§10-640.1. Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness Board.

§10-640.2. Powers and responsibilities of Board.

§10-640.3. School readiness foundation.

§10-700. Delegation of powers regarding child care and custody.

§10-701. Statutory form for power of attorney to delegate parental or legal custodian powers.

§10-1116.2. Postadjudication review boards.

§10-1116.3. Advisory status of review boards - Duties and responsibilities.

§10-1116.4. Disclosure of certain information prohibited - Exceptions.

§10-1116.6. Postadjudication Review Advisory Board.

§10-1150. Short title.

§10-1150.1. Definitions.

§10-1150.2. Child Death Review Board - Creation - Powers and duties - Meetings and discussions - Annual report.

§10-1150.2a. Production of documents - Subpoena.

§10-1150.3. Board - Membership - Officers - Meetings - Compensation - Administrative assistance and services.

§10-1150.4. Chief Medical Examiner - Monthly death reports - Review of child death certificates - Requests for information.

§10-1150.6. Child maltreatment medical review.

§10-1406. Northern Oklahoma Resource Center of Enid, Southern Oklahoma Resource Center of Pauls Valley, Hissom Memorial Center - Transfer to Public Welfare Commission - Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

§10-1408. Definitions.

§10-1409. Transfer of powers and duties.

§10-1410. Personal properties - Contracts and leases - Unexpended funds.

§10-1411. Rules and regulations - Repair of buildings - Federal funds - Superintendents and other personnel - Expenditure of funds.

§10-1411.1. Developmental Disabilities Services Division - Periodic reports.

§10-1411.2. Developmental Disabilities Services Division waiting list - Voucher waiver program.

§10-1412. Advisory committee.

§10-1413. Transfer of pupils.

§10-1414. Admission of individuals with intellectual disability - Applications - Release.

§10-1414.1. Greer Center Facility - Admission guidelines and procedures.

§10-1415. Placement in institution for individuals with intellectual disability not to abrogate parental rights - Guardians - Assessment of competency.

§10-1415.1. Clinical records - Ombudsman program - Periodic evaluation - Residential placement - Reports of psychotropic medications.

§10-1416. Liability for care and treatment.

§10-1417. Clinics - Outpatient facilities - Day care centers.

§10-1417.1. Medicaid payments for reserved beds in intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities - Amendment of Medicaid State Plan.

§10-1418. Powers and duties of Commission for Rehabilitation Services – Local education agencies.

§10-1419. Administration - Personnel - Retirement system.

§10-1419a. Dismissal or nonrenewal of contract of career teacher or administrative personnel other than principal – Trial de novo.

§10-1420. Transfer of property, records, funds, etc.

§10-1421. Purchase of school busses.

§10-1423. Program for care and treatment of children - Federal matching funds.

§10-1424. Department as next friend of institutionalized persons - Procuring appoint of guardian.

§10-1425. Authorization to operate facilities.

§10-1430.1. Short title.

§10-1430.2. Definitions.

§10-1430.3. Department - Powers and duties.

§10-1430.4. Group Homes for Persons with Developmental or Physical Disabilities Advisory Board.

§10-1430.6. Standing to bring action - Jurisdiction.

§10-1430.7. Group home as nuisance - Actions - Request for investigation - Complaint.

§10-1430.8. Liability for injury to resident - Actions - Remedies - Waivers - Jury trial - Retaliation - Privileges and immunities - Report of abuse, neglect or exploitation.

§10-1430.9. Penalties and liabilities for certain violations.

§10-1430.10a. Revocation or denial of or refusal to renew license – Notice – Protest - Emergency.

§10-1430.11. Standards for group homes.

§10-1430.12. Fire safety inspections - Reports.

§10-1430.13. Information subject to disclosure to public.

§10-1430.14. Provisions of license - Application - Statement of zoning compliance - Qualifications of applicant or licensee - Statement of ownership - Issuance and renewal of licenses.

§10-1430.15. Nontransferability of license - Transfer of operation of group home.

§10-1430.17. Conditional license.

§10-1430.18. Documents to be made available to residents, employees and visitors.

§10-1430.19. Documents and records to be available for public inspection.

§10-1430.20. Statement of rights and responsibilities - Denial of appropriate care based on resident's source of payment - Staff training – Limitation of rights - Report of violations - Death of resident.

§10-1430.22. Resident's contract.

§10-1430.23. Protection of resident's funds.

§10-1430.24. Access to group homes.

§10-1430.25. Involuntary transfer or discharge of resident.

§10-1430.26. Provider prohibited from having insurable interest in life of resident or being beneficiary of life insurance policy - Appointment as guardian or conservator or holding power of attorney prohibited.

§10-1430.27. Inspection, investigation, survey or evaluation of group home.

§10-1430.31. Prohibited acts.

§10-1430.32. Violations - Penalties.

§10-1430.33. Notice of voluntary closing - Alternative placement of residents.

§10-1430.34. Appointment of monitor or receiver.

§10-1430.35. Emergencies - Investigations - Hearing.

§10-1430.36. Appointment of receiver.

§10-1430.37. Expenses of receiver - Insufficient funds - Compensation of receiver.

§10-1430.38. Liability of receiver - Bond.

§10-1430.39. Conditional license for provider in receivership.

§10-1430.40. Termination of receivership.

§10-1430.41. Rights, obligations and liability during receivership.

§10-1501. Various references deemed to be references to District Court or judge thereof.

§10-1505. Employment of persons to provide juvenile officer or assistant juvenile officer services in certain counties.

§10-1505a. Assistant juvenile officer in certain counties.

§10-1628. Missing child 16 and under - Investigation of disappearance.

§10-1629. Short title.

§10-1630. Definitions.

§10-1631. Fingerprinting minors and identification card.

§10-1632. Intent of legislature.

§10-1633. School district fingerprinting programs.

§10-7007-1.7. Membership.

§10-7007-1.8. Purposes - Report.

§10-7007-1.9. Task Force on Reactive Attachment Disorder in Children – Membership - Duties.

§10-7501-1.1. Short title - Composition of Code.

§10-7501-1.2. Purpose of Code.

§10-7501-1.3. Definitions.

§10-7502-1.1. Jurisdiction.

§10-7502-1.2. Venue.

§10-7502-1.3. Laws governing.

§10-7502-1.4. Foreign adoptions.

§10-7503-1.1. Eligibility to adopt.

§10-7503-1.2. Written adoption full-disclosure statement - Signatures.

§10-7503-2.1. Who may consent.

§10-7503-2.2. When consent may be given.

§10-7503-2.3. Permanent relinquishments.

§10-7503-2.4. Contents of consent to adoption.

§10-7503-2.5. Acknowledgment of consent to adoption or permanent relinquishment before judge - Affidavit of nondisclosure.

§10-7503-2.6. Extrajudicial consent.

§10-7503-2.7. Setting aside permanent relinquishment or consent to adoption.

§10-7503-3.1. Notice of plan for adoption.

§10-7503-3.2. Notice of filing of paternity action by putative father.

§10-7503-4.1. Temporary orders of custody.

§10-7504-1.1. Medical and social history report.

§10-7504-1.2. Disclosure.

§10-7505-1.1. Confidential character of hearings and records – Release - Exceptions - Misdemeanor.

§10-7505-1.2. Appointment of attorney and guardian ad litem.

§10-7505-1.3. Court clerk or deputy may affix signature of judge to order and notice of hearing.

§10-7505-1.4. Priority on docket - Proceedings to be expedited.

§10-7505-1.5. Visitation agreements between child, adoptive parents and birth relative.

§10-7505-2.1. Preadoption termination of parental rights.

§10-7505-3.1. Contents.

§10-7505-3.2. Costs, funds or monies expended by adoptive family – Disclosure statement.

§10-7505-3.3. Disclosure Statement of Adoption-related Costs and Expenditures.

§10-7505-4.1. Application - Notice - Hearing - Order - Appeal.

§10-7505-4.2. Exceptions to requirement of parental consent.

§10-7505-4.3. Inquiry to identify unknown or putative father.

§10-7505-5.1. Favorable preplacement home study required - Waiver - Exception - Placement not approved in certain circumstances.

§10-7505-5.2. Subsequent home study - Waiver.

§10-7505-5.3. Contents of home study.

§10-7505-5.4. Persons or agencies authorized to conduct home studies.

§10-7505-6.1. Interlocutory decree.

§10-7505-6.2. Filings required prior to final hearing.

§10-7505-6.3. Application for final decree - Waiver of interlocutory decree and waiting period - Notice of hearing - Appearance - Entry of final decree.

§10-7505-6.4. Denial of petition for adoption.

§10-7505-6.5. Effect of final decree - Grandparental rights.

§10-7505-6.6. Certificate of adoption - Supplementary birth certificate - Sealed records - Disclosure of original records.

§10-7505-7.1. Appeals.

§10-7505-7.2. Limitations on challenge to adoption or termination of parental rights - Effect of appeal - Best interests of child.

§10-7505-8.1. Adoption dissolution statistics to be published.

§10-7506-1.1. Paternity registry.

§10-7506-1.2. Revocation of notice of intent to claim paternity - Removal of registrant's name from registry.

§10-7507-1.1. Adult adoptions.

§10-7508-1.1. Records retention.

§10-7508-1.2. Mutual Consent Voluntary Registry.

§10-7508-1.3. Confidential intermediary search program.

§10-7509-1.1. Conditions for discharges of infants from medical facilities.

§10-7509-1.2. Confidential index of birth and adoptive names.

§10-7509-1.3. Invalidation or revocation of final decree of adoption.

§10-7510-1.1. Short title.

§10-7510-1.2. Definitions.

§10-7510-1.3. Program of assistance for children not eligible for federally funded adoption assistance benefits.

§10-7510-1.4. Eligibility for adoption assistance - Factors for determination.

§10-7510-1.5. Written agreement - Commencement of assistance - Amount - Preexisting condition - Periodic certification - Termination or modification - Continued eligibility regardless of residence.

§10-7510-1.6. Denial of assistance - Hearing.

§10-7510-2.1. Department of Human Services to contract or join with adoption exchange - Information to be provided - Definitions.

§10-7510-2.2. Photograph and description of child to be provided to exchange.

§10-7510-2.3. Exemptions.

§10-7510-2.4. Change in status of child listed by exchange.

§10-7510-2.5. Withdrawal of child from register.

§10-7510-3.1. Short title.

§10-7510-3.2. Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance.

§10-7510-3.3. Administration of compact - Rules and regulations.

§10-7603. Renumbered as § 2203 of Title 27A by Laws 2006, c. 226, § 6, emerg. eff. June 6, 2006.

§10-7700-101. Short title.

§10-7700-102. Definitions.

§10-7700-103. Scope of act – Choice of law – Jurisdiction of district and administrative courts.

§10-7700-201. Establishment of parent-child relationship.

§10-7700-202. Equal rights of marital and nonmarital children.

§10-7700-203. Application of established parent-child relationship.

§10-7700-204. Presumption of paternity.

§10-7700-301. Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.

§10-7700-302. Requirements of acknowledgment – Void and voidable acknowledgment.

§10-7700-303. Denial of paternity - Validity.

§10-7700-304. Execution of acknowledgment and denial – Effective date – Execution by minors.

§10-7700-305. Effect of acknowledgment or denial.

§10-7700-306. No filing fee.

§10-7700-307. Rescission of acknowledgment or denial.

§10-7700-308. Proceeding to challenge acknowledgment – Commencement – Burden of proof.

§10-7700-309. Proceeding to challenge acknowledgment or denial – Procedure.

§10-7700-310. Ratification of unchallenged acknowledgment prohibited.

§10-7700-311. Full faith and credit.

§10-7700-312. Forms for acknowledgment and denial of paternity – Rescission form – Effect of modification of forms.

§10-7700-313. Release of copies of acknowledgment or denial of paternity.

§10-7700-314. Rules.

§10-7700-501. Scope of article.

§10-7700-502. Order for genetic testing – Order for in utero testing not allowed.

§10-7700-503. Requirements of testing – Objection to calculation - Retesting.

§10-7700-504. Report of testing – Chain of custody.

§10-7700-505. Identification of father - Rebuttal.

§10-7700-506. Payment of costs of testing.

§10-7700-507. Advance payment for additional testing.

§10-7700-508. Specimen from potential father unavailable – Additional sources of specimens for testing.

§10-7700-509. Testing of deceased individual.

§10-7700-510. Testing of identical brother – Use of nongenetic evidence.

§10-7700-511. Release of genetic test report.

§10-7700-601. Proceeding authorized.

§10-7700-602. Standing to maintain proceeding.

§10-7700-603. Parties to proceeding.

§10-7700-604. Personal jurisdiction.

§10-7700-605. Venue.

§10-7700-606. No limitation for parentage proceeding with no presumed, acknowledged, or adjudicated father.

§10-7700-607. Two-year limitation in proceedings with presumed father - Exception.

§10-7700-608. Motion for genetic testing.

§10-7700-609. Limitation in proceeding with acknowledged or adjudicated father.

§10-7700-610. Joinder of proceedings.

§10-7700-611. Proceeding before birth of child.

§10-7700-612. Child as party to proceeding – Guardian ad litem.

§10-7700-621. Admissibility of genetic-testing results - Testimony of experts - Medical bills.

§10-7700-622. Enforcement of order for genetic testing - Default.

§10-7700-623. Admission of paternity.

§10-7700-624. Temporary order for support.

§10-7700-631. Rules for adjudication of paternity.

§10-7700-632. Jury prohibited.

§10-7700-633. Closure of proceeding – Inspection of records.

§10-7700-634. Order on default.

§10-7700-635. Dismissal for want of prosecution.

§10-7700-636. Order adjudicating parentage – Assessment of fees and costs – Change of child’s surname.

§10-7700-637. Binding effect of determination of parentage.

§10-7700-901. Uniformity of application and construction.

§10-7700-902. Governance of act.

§10-7800. Custody of a child born out of wedlock.