Wyoming Adoption Laws

Adoption Laws in Wyoming

Access to Adoption Records

• Non-Identifying Information: To obtain non identifying information, a person must complete 18 years of age or over.
• Confidential Intermediary: Adaptive parents, birth parents, birth siblings (19 age or older) and adapted person (age eighteen or older) can have this service.

• Contact:
  Wyoming Confidential Adoption Intermediary Services
  Hathaway Building, Room 336
  2300 Capitol Avenue
  Cheyenne, WY 82002-0710
  (307) 777-3570
  (307) 777-3693 fax
  Birth Certificate (Original): A petition to the court is must to obtain a certificate by adoptee.

Consents

• Consent to an adoption shall be done by:
  Statute: - § 1-22-109
  • Both Parents if living
  • Guardians (legal)
  • A mother and putative father if his name is known
  • Legal custodian of child, or
  • An Executive Head of Agency to which the child has been relinquished for adoption.

• Age Requirement for consideration of Adoptee Consent:
  Statute: - § 1-22-109
  A person having age 14 years or older should consent to the adoption.

• When Consent is not required:
  Statute: - § 1-22-110
  • If the parents fails to answer to the notice or unable to appear at the hearing;
  • On termination of parental rights;
  • The parents willfully abandoned the child or been adjudged guilty of child abuse or neglect it;
  • If unable to complete the support obligations;

• Parental Consent can be executed:
  Statute: - § 1-22-109
  • At any time after the birth of child;
  • A document including a written custody relinquishment and consent;
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