§ 115. General provisions relating to private-placement adoptions. 1. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, private-placement adoptions shall be effected in the same manner as provided in sections one hundred twelve and one hundred fourteen of title two of this article. (b) A person or persons seeking to commence a private-placement adoption shall, […]
§ 115-a. Special provisions relating to children to be brought into the state for private-placement adoption. 1. In the case of a child whose admission to the United States as an eligible orphan with non-quota immigrant status pursuant to the federal immigration and nationality act is sought for the purpose of adoption in the state […]
§ 115-b. Special provisions relating to consents in private-placement adoptions. 1. A duly executed and acknowledged consent to a private-placement adoption shall state that no action or proceeding may be maintained by the consenting parent for the custody of the child to be adopted except as provided in this section. Notwithstanding any other section of […]
§ 115-c. Temporary guardianship by adoptive parent. In any case where physical custody of a child is transferred from the child’s parent or guardian to another person or persons for the purposes of adoption and a consent to the adoption of such child has been executed pursuant to section one hundred fifteen-b of this title, […]
§ 115-d. Petition for certification. 1. Except as provided for in subdivision eight of this section, a person or persons petitioning for certification as a qualified adoptive parent or parents shall upon a form, promulgated by the chief administrator of the courts, provide to the court: (a) the applicant’s name or applicants’ names, residential address […]
§ 115-e. Effect of death of potential adoptive parent. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, when a petition for adoption by two persons has been duly filed, and one of the petitioners dies before the adoption is complete, it shall be treated as a change of circumstance. This change may be reviewed […]
§ 116. Orders of investigation and order of adoption. 1. When the adoptive child is less than eighteen years of age, no order of adoption shall be made until three months after the court shall have received the petition to adopt, except where the spouse of the adoptive parent is the birth parent of the […]
