This bill provides a major overhaul for Georgia adoption laws, which were last updated in 1990. The most notable changes include shortening the period for revocation of surrender of parental rights; granting temporary power of attorney for the care of a child; allowing adoptive parents to pay a birth mother’s expenses; lowering the age for adoptive relatives; and simplifying the process to adopt foreign-born children
The Act expands certain definitions found in the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act. The definit...
This package of bills revised and added a number of code sections to Georgia\u27s child protection l...
The bill would have repealed and replaced Georgia’s Power of Attorney for the Care of a Minor Child ...
This bill provides a major overhaul for Georgia adoption laws, which were last updated in 1990. The ...
The Act provides that the State shall recognize an irrevocable release or consent to adoption execut...
The Act clarifies provisions of the Adoption Code, corrects syntactical and grammatical errors, and ...
The Act provides a six-month time limitation on challenging adoptions. The Act also provides a six-m...
The Act permits legal custodians of a human embryo to transfer their rights in the embryo to an inte...
The bill would have allowed parents under hardship to delegate care-giving authority to grandparents...
The Act brings state law into compliance with federal guidelines and qualifies the state for funding...
The Act provides that whenever a grandparent or other blood relative petitions for adoption of a min...
The Act serves two different seemingly independent purposes. First, the Act codifies Georgia\u27s c...
The Act amends several aspects of Georgia domestic relations law. First, the Act provides that in a...
The Act amends the Code to give grandparents the right to file an original action for visitation rig...
The Act changes provisions relating to termination of parental rights when the child is not in the p...
The Act expands certain definitions found in the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act. The definit...
This package of bills revised and added a number of code sections to Georgia\u27s child protection l...
The bill would have repealed and replaced Georgia’s Power of Attorney for the Care of a Minor Child ...
This bill provides a major overhaul for Georgia adoption laws, which were last updated in 1990. The ...
The Act provides that the State shall recognize an irrevocable release or consent to adoption execut...
The Act clarifies provisions of the Adoption Code, corrects syntactical and grammatical errors, and ...
The Act provides a six-month time limitation on challenging adoptions. The Act also provides a six-m...
The Act permits legal custodians of a human embryo to transfer their rights in the embryo to an inte...
The bill would have allowed parents under hardship to delegate care-giving authority to grandparents...
The Act brings state law into compliance with federal guidelines and qualifies the state for funding...
The Act provides that whenever a grandparent or other blood relative petitions for adoption of a min...
The Act serves two different seemingly independent purposes. First, the Act codifies Georgia\u27s c...
The Act amends several aspects of Georgia domestic relations law. First, the Act provides that in a...
The Act amends the Code to give grandparents the right to file an original action for visitation rig...
The Act changes provisions relating to termination of parental rights when the child is not in the p...
The Act expands certain definitions found in the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act. The definit...
This package of bills revised and added a number of code sections to Georgia\u27s child protection l...
The bill would have repealed and replaced Georgia’s Power of Attorney for the Care of a Minor Child ...