Georgia Adoption Laws Page1

Adoption Laws in Georgia Page1

About adoption consent

• For whom it is must to consent to adoption : Statute : Statute: - § 19-8-4(a)

  A parent who are alive or any guardian have to voluntarily surrender all rights to the child to the department or child placing agency.

• Age required of an adoptee to consent of adoptee: Statute: - § 19-8-4(b)

  A child of age 14 or more than it may consent in the presence of the court.

• No need of parental consent: Statute: - § 19-8-10
  • The child has been abandoned and if parents are not found after search.
  • If parent failed to give proper parental care.

Advertising used and facilitators in adoptive placements

• Advertisement used : Statute: Statute: - § 19-8-24(a)

  • A person who is seeking to adopt child or to place child for adoption can contact with the help of private ways like written letters and oral statements.

  • It is not lawful if a person, or organization, hospital, or association established as child placing agency by the department to advertise, periodicaly, on television, radio, or any other public medium, that person, organization, hospital, or association will adopt children or will arrange for children to be placed for adoption.

• Intermediaries or facilitators use : Statute: - § 19-8-24(a)(2)

  • It is not allowed by law if a person, hospital, or association, organization, corporation, which is not established as child placing agency by the department to indirectly or directly hold out inducements, which includes any financial help except medical expenses, to the parents to part with their children.