Section 808 – Division termination or modification of adoption assistance.

• (1) The division may not terminate or modify adoption assistance unless the division gives the adoptive parents notice and opportunity for a hearing as required in Title 63G, Chapter 4, Administrative Procedures Act.

• (2) The division shall terminate adoption assistance if any of the following occur:
  • (a) the adoptive parents request termination;
  • (b) subject to Subsection (3), the child reaches 18 years old, unless the division gives approval to continue beyond 18 years old due to mental or physical disability;
  • (c) the child dies;
  • (d) the adoptive parents die;
  • (e) the adoptive parents’ legal responsibility for the child ceases;
  • (f) the state determines that the child is no longer receiving support from the adoptive parents;
  • (g) the child marries; or
  • (h) the child enters military service.

• (3) Adoption assistance may not continue after the day on which the child reaches 21 years old.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 334, 2022 General Session