Section 5-402 – Purpose of Subtitle
The purpose of this subtitle is to make possible, through a public subsidy, the most appropriate adoption of each eligible child.
Section 5-403 – Eligibility for Subsidy
The local department shall determine whether a subsidy is necessary to ensure a child’s adoption because of the child’s special circumstances, including: (1) physical or mental disability; (2) emotional disturbance; (3) recognized high risk of physical or mental disease; (4) age; (5) sibling relationship; and (6) racial or ethnic factors.
Section 5-407 – Funds
(a) Money payments and special services under the adoption subsidy program shall be funded by: (1) appropriations to a local department for the maintenance of children in foster care; and (2) money that is made available to a local department from other sources. (b) Medical assistance and medical care under the adoption subsidy program shall be funded by: (1) savings […]
Section 5-408 – Eligibility
(a) A subsidy may not be denied to an eligible child on the ground that the eligible child had a condition that was not known or discovered at the time of the adoption. (b) An individual who has been approved by a child placement agency as an appropriate adoptive parent and who seeks to adopt an eligible […]
Section 5-3B-20 – Authority to Grant Adoption
A court may enter an order for adoption only if: (1) (i) 1. each of the prospective adoptee’s living parents consents: A. in writing; or B. by failure to timely file notice of objection after being served with a show–cause order in accordance with this subtitle; 2. an administrative, executive, or judicial body of a state or other jurisdiction has granted […]
Section 5-3B-21 – Consent
(a) (1) Consent of a parent may include a waiver of rights to notice of: (i) the filing of a petition under this subtitle; and (ii) further proceedings under this subtitle. (2) Consent to adoption under this subtitle is not valid unless the consent: (i) is given after the prospective adoptee is born; (ii) is given in a language that the party […]
Section 5-3B-22 – Nonconsensual Adoption
(a) This section applies only if a parent affirmatively withholds consent by filing a notice of objection. (b) (1) A court may allow adoption, without parental consent otherwise required under this subtitle, by a petitioner who has exercised physical care, control, or custody over the prospective adoptee for at least 180 days, if the court finds by clear […]
Section 5-3B-05 – Paternity
(a) Unless a court excludes a man as the father of a child, a man is the father if: (1) the man was married to the child’s mother at the time of the child’s conception; (2) the man was married to the child’s mother at the time of the child’s birth; (3) the man is named as the father […]
Section 5-3B-23 – Custody
A court may not grant a petition under § 5-3B-22 of this subtitle solely because a parent: (1) does not have legal custody of a prospective adoptee by reason of a divorce or legal separation; or (2) has been deprived of custody of a prospective adoptee by an act of the other parent.
Section 5-3B-06 – Appointed Counsel
(a) (1) In a case under this subtitle, a court shall appoint an attorney to represent a parent who: (i) has a disability that makes the parent incapable of effectively participating in the case; or (ii) when the parent must decide whether to consent to adoption, is still a minor. (2) To determine whether a disability makes a parent incapable […]