Loading chat...
MO HB107
Bill
Status
1/9/2013
Primary Sponsor
T.J. Berry
Click for details
AI Summary
-
Reduces the required waiting period before birth parent consent to adoption from 48 hours to 24 hours after child's birth.
-
Shortens the mandatory placement period for adoption finalization from six months to three months.
-
Requires consent witnesses to be a hospital social worker, guardian ad litem, or child-placing agency social worker instead of two unrelated adult witnesses.
-
Requires birth parent consent to be executed in the presence of their attorney and establishes that birth parents have the right to legal representation with fees paid by prospective adoptive parents.
-
Changes the minimum age for parents to waive adoption consent from two days to one day old.
Legislative Description
Changes the laws regarding adoption by reducing the required time period before a person can voluntary relinquish a child and the required time period of a child's placement before his or her adoption can be finalized
Last Action
Motion to Do Pass Failed (H)
3/12/2013