West Virginia Code
Article 22. Adoption
§48-22-112. Nonmarital Child Defined

"Nonmarital child" means a child not born or conceived during marriage.

Structure West Virginia Code

West Virginia Code

Chapter 48. Domestic Relations

Article 22. Adoption

§48-22-101. Applicability of Definitions

§48-22-102. Abandonment Defined

§48-22-103. Adoptive Parents, Adoptive Mother or Adoptive Father Defined

§48-22-104. Agency Defined

§48-22-105. Birth Father Defined

§48-22-106. Birth Mother Defined

§48-22-107. Birth Parents Defined

§48-22-108. Consent 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

§48-22-701. Proceedings

§48-22-702. Recordation of Order; Fees; Disposition of Records; Names of Adopting Parents and Persons Previously Entitled to Parental Rights Not to Be Disclosed; Disclosure of Identifying and Nonidentifying Information; Certificate for State Registra...

§48-22-703. Effect of Order as to Relations of Parents and Child and as to Rights of Inheritance; Intestacy of Adopted Child

§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