"Birth mother" means the biological mother of the child.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 48. Domestic Relations
§48-22-101. Applicability of Definitions
§48-22-102. Abandonment Defined
§48-22-103. Adoptive Parents, Adoptive Mother or Adoptive Father Defined
§48-22-105. Birth Father Defined
§48-22-106. Birth Mother Defined
§48-22-107. Birth Parents Defined
§48-22-109. Determined Father Defined
§48-22-110. Legal Father Defined
§48-22-111. Marital Child Defined
§48-22-112. Nonmarital Child Defined
§48-22-113. Outsider Father Defined
§48-22-114. Putative Father Defined
§48-22-115. Relinquishment Defined
§48-22-116. Stepparent Adoption Defined
§48-22-117. Unknown Father Defined
§48-22-201. Persons Who May Petition for Decree of Adoption
§48-22-301. Persons Whose Consent or Relinquishment Is Required; Exceptions
§48-22-302. Timing and Execution of Consent or Relinquishment
§48-22-303. Content of Consent or Relinquishment
§48-22-304. Consent or Relinquishment by Infants
§48-22-305. Revocation of Consent or Relinquishment for Adoption
§48-22-306. Conduct Presumptively Constituting Abandonment
§48-22-401. Delivery of Child for Adoption; Written Recital of Circumstances
§48-22-501. Filing of Petition for Adoption
§48-22-502. Petition and Appendix
§48-22-601. Who Shall Receive Notice
§48-22-602. How Notice Is to Be Served
§48-22-603. Notice to an Unknown Father
§48-22-704. Finality of Order; Challenges to Order of Adoption
§48-22-801. Adoption of Adults
§48-22-802. Contracts Limiting or Restraining Adoptions
§48-22-901. Recognition of Foreign Adoption Decree
§48-22-902. Filing of Petition for Recognition of Foreign Adoption Decree
§48-22-903. Proceedings for Recognition of Foreign Adoption Decree