CHAPTER 4. CAPACITY TO SURRENDER Art. 1111. Capacity generally Except as provided hereinafter in this Chapter, any parent has the capacity to surrender his or her child for adoption. Acts 1991, No. 235, §11, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
Art. 1112. Inability due to court intervention A. Except as provided herein, a parent may not execute a private surrender once custody of that child has been removed from the parent by order of a juvenile court and the child has been placed in the legal custody of any person or agency or if the […]
Art. 1113. Minor parents A. Except as otherwise provided herein, if a parent executing a surrender in a private adoption is a minor, the parents or tutor of the minor must join in the surrender unless the minor parent has been judicially emancipated under Civil Code Article 385 or emancipated by marriage under Civil Code […]
Art. 1114. Mentally incapacitated parents Any parent who has been interdicted or who the court finds to be mentally incapable of giving a knowing and voluntary surrender shall not execute an act of surrender. Any act of surrender executed by an interdicted or mentally incapacitated parent is subject to annulment under Chapter 12 of this […]
