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2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 199 - PROTECTIVE SERVICES FOR CHILDREN - ADOPTION
199.471 Denial of adoption on religious, ethnic, or racial grounds.

KY Rev Stat § 199.471 (2015) What's This?

Download as PDF 199.471 Denial of adoption on religious, ethnic, or racial grounds. Petitions for adoption of children placed for adoption by the cabinet or a licensed childplacing institution or agency shall not be denied on the basis of the religious, ethnic, racial, or interfaith background of the adoptive applicant, unless contrary to the expressed wishes of the biological parent(s). History: Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 231, sec. 2.

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