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1998 Minnesota Code
Chapters 245 - 267 Public Welfare and Related Activities
Chapter 259 Change of Name, Adoption
- Section 259.09 Repealed, 1951 c 508 s 13
- Section 259.10 General requirements.
- Section 259.11 Order; filing copies.
- Section 259.12 Correctional inmates; name changes; limited.
- Section 259.20 Policy.
- Section 259.21 Definitions.
- Section 259.22 Petition.
- Section 259.23 Juvenile court, jurisdiction.
- Section 259.24 Consents.
- Section 259.25 Agreement conferring authority to place for adoption.
- Section 259.253 Renumbered 259.27
- Section 259.255 Renumbered 259.29
- Section 259.2565 Renumbered 259.33
- Section 259.257 Renumbered 259.35
- Section 259.26 Renumbered 259.49
- Section 259.261 Renumbered 259.51
- Section 259.27 Notification of death or terminal illness.
- Section 259.28 Renumbered 259.57
- Section 259.29 Protection of best interests in adoptive placements.
- Section 259.30 Repealed, 1975 c 216 s 1
- Section 259.31 Agency placement factors.
- Section 259.32 Renumbered 259.63
- Section 259.33 MS 1996 Repealed, 1997 c 239 art 6 s 38
- Section 259.35 Notice to adoptive parents.
- Section 259.37 Agency; fee schedule; disclosure; civil action.
- Section 259.39 Commissioner's statement.
- Section 259.40 Renumbered 259.67
- Section 259.405 Repealed, 1Sp1985 c 9 art 2 s 104
- Section 259.406 Renumbered 259.69
- Section 259.41 Adoption study.
- Section 259.43 Birth parent history; commissioner's form.
- Section 259.431 Renumbered 259.71
- Section 259.44 Renumbered 259.73
- Section 259.45 State audit of adoption agency; civil action.
- Section 259.455 Renumbered 259.77
- Section 259.46 Renumbered 259.79
- Section 259.465 Renumbered 259.81
- Section 259.47 Direct adoptive placement.
- Section 259.471 Renumbered 259.85
- Section 259.48 Renumbered 259.87
- Section 259.49 Notice, hearing on petition.
- Section 259.51 Repealed, 1997 c 218 s 13
- Section 259.52 Putative fathers' adoption registry.
- Section 259.53 Petition; investigations; reports.
- Section 259.55 Payment of birth parent expenses; penalty.
- Section 259.57 Hearing, decree.
- Section 259.58 Communication or contact agreements.
- Section 259.59 Effect of adoption.
- Section 259.60 Intercountry adoptions; obtaining amended birth certificate.
- Section 259.61 Hearings, confidential.
- Section 259.63 Appeals.
- Section 259.65 Appointment of attorney and guardian ad litem.
- Section 259.67 Adoption assistance program.
- Section 259.69 Transfer of funds.
- Section 259.71 Interstate adoption compacts; service payments.
- Section 259.73 Reimbursement of nonrecurring adoption expenses.
- Section 259.75 State adoption exchange.
- Section 259.77 Family recruitment.
- Section 259.78 Grandparent visitation.
- Section 259.79 Adoption records.
- Section 259.81 Referral for services.
- Section 259.83 Postadoption services.
- Section 259.85 Postadoption service grants program.
- Section 259.87 Rules.
- Section 259.89 Access to original birth certificate information.
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