West Virginia Code
Article 22. Adoption
§48-22-401. Delivery of Child for Adoption; Written Recital of Circumstances

§48-22-401. Delivery of child for adoption; written recital of circumstances.
Whenever a person delivers a child for adoption the person first receiving such child and the prospective adopting parent or parents shall be entitled to receive from such person a written recital of all known circumstances surrounding the birth, medical and family medical history of the child, and an itemization of any facts or circumstances unknown concerning the child's parentage or that may require further development in the form of an affidavit from the birth mother consistent with the provisions of section 22-502.

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