Oversight Hearing on Model State Adoption Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, D.C. on May 14, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 281 pages |
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adop adopted children Adoption Administration adoption process adoption services adoptive family adult adoptees ALMA authorized adoption agency barriers to adoption best interest biological parents birth mother birth parents child for adoption Child Welfare children with special Committee concern CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consent counsel custody Dawsons decision Donati draft ERDAHL family assessment Federal Register filed Fortner foster care guardian ad litem hearing involuntary termination issue jurisdiction legal custodian LIBRARY OF CONGRESS license ment minor Model Adoption Act Model State Adoption NACAC natural mother natural parents notice Open adoption open records panel parent or putative parent-child relationship parental rights parties Paul Simon person petition petitioner placement for adoption Prince Georges County procedures proposed model act prospective adoptive parents pursuant to Section putative father relinquishment responsibility SCHUR Section 308 SIMON social worker statement Stevie subsection terminating the parent-child termination of parental tion Valderas voluntary
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Page 118 - You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies, but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
Page 38 - It is in the best interest of the child that a court of this State assume jurisdiction because (i) the child and his parents, or the child and at least one contestant, have a significant connection with this State, and (ii) there is available in this State substantial evidence concerning the child's present or future care, protection, training, and personal relationships; or 3.
Page 20 - abused or neglected child" means a child whose physical or mental health or welfare is harmed or threatened with harm by the acts or omissions of his parent or other person responsible for his welfare.
Page 235 - It is, therefore, the purpose of this title to facilitate the elimination of barriers to adoption and to. provide permanent and loving home environments for children who would benefit by adoption, particularly children with special needs...
Page 38 - ... another state has declined to exercise jurisdiction on the ground that this State is the more appropriate forum to determine the custody of the child, and (ii) it is in the best interest of the child that this court assume jurisdiction.
Page 33 - ... (ii) if the attempted marriage is invalid without a court order, the child is born within 300 days after the termination of cohabitation; (3) after the child's birth, he and the child's natural mother have married, or attempted to marry, each other by a marriage solemnized in apparent compliance with law, although the attempted marriage is or could be declared invalid, and...
Page 39 - ... consent, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction; (3) the individual resided with the child in this State; (4) the individual resided in this State and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child; (5) the child resides in this State as a result of the acts or directives of the individual...
Page 95 - ... to be fixed by the court which the commission may recover in its own name in any court of competent jurisdiction, and in a summary proceeding where available under the practice and procedure of such court. For the purposes of this section in the event of a continuing offense each day of...
Page 59 - When the mental or physical condition (including the blood group) of a party, or of a person in the custody or under the legal control of a party, is in controversy, the court in which the action is pending may order the party to submit to a physical or mental examination by a physician or to produce for examination the person in his custody or legal control.
Page 40 - By appellees it is contended that anyone who desires to appear specially, for the purpose of objecting to the jurisdiction of the court over his person...