MO SB425

Expands circumstances where the children's division is not required to make "reasonable efforts" to reunify families, including cases involving parental alcohol or controlled substance dependency that appears untreatable, history of giving birth to substance-exposed newborns, or prior failed reunification attempts with other children

Redefines "parent" in termination proceedings to include biological parents, presumed fathers, acknowledged fathers, adjudicated parents, adoptive parents, and putative fathers who establish a relationship with the child and file a parentage action within 15 days of birth

Allows juvenile courts to receive parental consent to adoption or waiver of consent, in addition to terminating parental rights, when a parent executes such documents in writing

Creates new section 453.045 requiring putative fathers whose consent is waived to prove they developed a "consistent and substantial relationship" with the child (including prenatal financial support, child support, visitation, and medical/educational assistance) to preserve rights to intervene in adoption or termination proceedings

Eliminates the need for adoption consent from men who are on notice they may be biological fathers but have not developed a consistent and substantial relationship with the child under the new requirements