Louisiana Adoption Laws Page5

Adoption Laws in Louisiana Page5

State haven laws for Infants

• Infant age : Statute: Ch. Code art. 1150
  • Age must be 30 days old or less

• Who may relinquish the infant : Statute: Ch. Code art. 1150
  • Parent.

• Who may receive the infant : Statute: Ch. Code art. 1150
  • Medical service provider
  • Hospital
  • Police station
  • Fire station
  • Medical clinic
  • An emergency medical service provider.
  • Pregnancy crisis center
  • Public health unit
  • Child advocacy center

• Responsibilities of the safe haven provider : Statute: Ch. Code art. 1152
  • Give up information about counseling and reclaiming parental rights
  • Immediately notify the department
  • Provide a card containing the information to contact the department, when they have questions about relinquishment and reveal medical and genetic information.

• Immunity for provider : Statute: Ch. Code art. 1152 Yes.

• Protection for relinquishing parent : Statute: Ch. Code art. 1151
  • This is accordance with this law is not a criminal act of neglect, abandonment, cruelty, or crime against the child.

• Effect on the parental rights : Statute: Ch. Code art. 1154; 1156; 1158
  • Within 12 hours after the discharge the child from the hospital, the department can take physical custody of the child.
  • A parent who has give up the child must need to file of recovering possession of parental rights within 30 days after relinquishment.
  • A petition for termination of parental rights will be filed within 45 days relinquishment, if the parent has not made a claim on time and if no timely claim has been made by a nonrelinquishing.