§ 36-1-204. Applicability of Part
This part shall apply only to medical assistance for children under adoption assistance agreements from states that have entered into a compact with this state under which the other state provides medical assistance to children with special needs under adoption assistance agreements made by this state. Eligibility of all other children for assistance pursuant to […]
§ 36-1-205. Violations — Penalties
Whoever knowingly obtains, or attempts to obtain, or aids, or abets any person to obtain, by means of a willfully false statement or representation or by impersonation, or other fraudulent device, any assistance on behalf of a child or other person pursuant to the Interstate Compact on Adoption Assistance and Medical Assistance to which such […]
§ 36-1-143. Post-Adoption Services to Support Permanency in Adoption
The department shall provide post-adoption services in order to reduce the risk of adoption dissolution and to support the goal of permanency in adoption. The department shall provide the following post-adoption services either directly or through purchase of service providers: Crisis intervention, including the provision of immediate assessment and time limited treatment in volatile situations […]
§ 36-1-144. Categories of Information to Be Provided to Adoptive Family
To provide full disclosure about a child to be adopted from the department’s guardianship, the department shall provide to the adoptive family the following categories of information, to the extent that they are available: Historical and current health information; Historical and current educational information; Historical and current mental and behavioral health information; Nationality, ethnic background, […]
§ 36-1-145. Written Contract for Post-Adoption Contact Between Certain Parties — Requirements — Enforcement — Modification — Termination
A prospective adoptive parent or an adoptive parent and a biological parent; or a prospective adoptive parent or an adoptive parent, a biological parent, and a child who is fourteen (14) years of age or older who is being adopted or who has been adopted, may voluntarily enter into a written contract for post-adoption contact […]
§ 36-1-146. Rebuttable Presumption That Guardian Ad Litem’s Fees Divided Equally Between Parties
If a court appoints a guardian ad litem in a pending adoption proceeding, there will be a rebuttable presumption that the guardian ad litem’s fees shall be divided equally between the parties, excluding the person being adopted; provided, that if a party is found by the court to be indigent, the guardian ad litem shall […]
§ 36-1-133. Release of Nonidentifying Information Concerning Biological or Legal Family
Upon written request of an adopted person eighteen (18) years of age or older or of the adoptive parents or guardian of an adopted person under eighteen (18) years of age, the biological or legal relatives of an adopted person, the lineal descendants of the adopted person, or the legal representatives of such persons, the […]
§ 36-1-134. Transmission of Information Between Affected Parties — Access to Records of Deceased or Disabled Persons — Updating of Information to Allow Contact
The department, or a licensed child-placing agency or the licensed clinical social worker that has had a prior relationship with the persons stated in § 36-1-133(a) through placement of a child or through a home study process and that maintains a limited record or post-adoption record, shall, subject to the written consent of each party […]
§ 36-1-135. Updated Medical Information in Records — Searches for Persons Affected
The department shall update its post-adoption records with any medical, psychological or psychiatric information provided by an adopted person or a person for whom records are maintained, as described in § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A), eighteen (18) years of age or older, or such person’s legal representative, or by such person’s adoptive or legal parent if the adopted […]
§ 36-1-136. Notification Made as Part of Search, Contact or Identifying Requests
Any notification required to be made as part of a search or a contact or an identifying request pursuant to this part for an adopted person or a person for whom records are maintained as described under § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A), shall be made with such persons who are twenty-one (21) years of age or older, except […]