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2020 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 19 - Children's Code
Article 5. Relinquishment and Adoption
Editor's note: This title was repealed and reenacted in 1987. For historical information concerning the repeal and reenactment, see the editor's note following the title heading.
Law reviews: For article, "Difficult Issues in Adoption - Part 1", see 24 Colo. Law. 851 (1994); for article, "Difficult Issues in Adoption - Part 2", see 24 Colo. Law. 1083 (1994); for casenote, "Inappropriate Application of the Best Interests of the Child Standard Leads to Worst Case Scenario: In re C.C.R.S.", see 68 U. Colo. L. Rev. 259 (1997).
PART 1 RELINQUISHMENT
- Section 19-5-100.2. Legislative declaration.
- Section 19-5-100.5. Applicability of article.
- Section 19-5-101. Termination of the parent-child legal relationship.
- Section 19-5-102. Venue.
- Section 19-5-102.5. Relinquishment hearings - court docket priority.
- Section 19-5-103. Relinquishment procedure - petition - hearings.
- Section 19-5-103.5. Expedited relinquishment procedure - children under one year of age other birth parents - notice - termination.
- Section 19-5-103.7. Anticipated expedited relinquishment - children under one year of age notice to other or possible parent - administrative procedures.
- Section 19-5-104. Final order of relinquishment.
- Section 19-5-105. Proceeding to terminate parent-child legal relationship.
- Section 19-5-105.5. Termination of parent-child legal relationship upon a finding that the child was conceived as a result of sexual assault - legislative declaration - definitions.
- Section 19-5-105.7. Termination of parent-child legal relationship in a case of an allegation that a child was conceived as a result of sexual assault but in which no conviction occurred - legislative declaration - definitions.
- Section 19-5-106. Records. (Repealed)
- Section 19-5-107. When notice of relinquishment proceedings required. (Repealed)
- Section 19-5-108. When notice of relinquishment proceedings required.
- Section 19-5-109. Birth parent access to records related to relinquishment of parental rights.
Law reviews. For article, "The Adoptee Trap, the Accidental Beneficiary, and the Rational Testator", see 42 Colo. Law. 29 (Feb. 2013).
- Section 19-5-200.2. Legislative declaration.
- Section 19-5-201. Who may be adopted.
- Section 19-5-202. Who may adopt.
- Section 19-5-202.5. Adoption hearings - termination appeals - court docket priority exceptions.
- Section 19-5-203. Availability for adoption.
- Section 19-5-204. Venue.
- Section 19-5-205. Adoption decree of foreign country approved.
- Section 19-5-205.5. Nonpublic agency interstate and foreign adoptions - legislative declaration - authority for state department to select agencies.
- Section 19-5-206. Placement for purposes of adoption.
- Section 19-5-207. Written consent and home study report for public adoptions fingerprint-based criminal history record checks - investigation - rules.
- Section 19-5-207.3. Placement of sibling groups.
- Section 19-5-207.5. Legislative declaration - standardized home studies - adoptive family resource registry - rules.
- Section 19-5-208. Petition for adoption.
- Section 19-5-209. Petition - written home study reports.
- Section 19-5-210. Hearing on petition.
- Section 19-5-211. Legal effects of final decree.
- Section 19-5-212. Copies of order of adoption - to whom given.
- Section 19-5-213. Compensation for placing child prohibited.
- Section 19-5-213.5. Unauthorized advertising for adoption purposes - exceptions - penalty definitions.
- Section 19-5-214. Limitation on annulment of adoption - best interests standard.
- Section 19-5-215. Records. (Repealed)
- Section 19-5-216. Increased access for adoption - study.
- Section 19-5-301. Legislative declaration.
- Section 19-5-302. Definitions. (Repealed)
- Section 19-5-303. Commission created - duties.
- Section 19-5-304. Confidential intermediaries - confidential intermediary services.
- Section 19-5-305. Access to adoption records - contact with parties to adoption - contact preference form and updated medical history statement - definitions.
- Section 19-5-305.5. Access to personal records relating to a former ward of the state home for dependent and neglected children - other eligible parties - definitions.
- Section 19-5-306. Public information campaign.
- Section 19-5-307. Child placement agency - transfer of records.
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