2024 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 19 - CHILDREN'S CODE (§§ 19-1-101 — 19-7-315)
Article 5 - Relinquishment and Adoption (§§ 19-5-100.2 — 19-5-403)
Part 2 - ADOPTION (§§ 19-5-200.2 — 19-5-217)
Section 19-5-201 - Who may be adopted

Any child legally available for adoption as provided in section 19-5-203, under eighteen years of age, and either present in the state at the time the petition for adoption is filed or under the jurisdiction of a court in Colorado for at least six months may be adopted. Upon approval of the court, a person eighteen years of age or older and under twenty-one years of age may be adopted as a child, and all provisions of this part 2 referring to the adoption of a child shall apply to such a person.

Amended by 2017 Ch. 339, § 1, eff. 7/1/2017.

L. 87: Entire title R&RE, p. 805, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2017: Entire section amended, (HB 17-1304), ch. 339, p. 1807, § 1, effective July 1.

This section was contained in a title that was repealed and reenacted in 1987. Provisions of this section, as it existed in 1987, are similar to those contained in 19-4-105 as said section existed in 1986, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this title.