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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 48', '§ 48', '§ 853', '§ 48', '§ 48', '§ 48', '§ 69']

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Citation: Ann. Stat. § 48.425
The Department of Children and Families, a county department, or a licensed child welfare agency shall file a report with the court that shall include the social history and medical records of the child.
The social history of the child
A medical record of the child on a form provided by the department that shall include:
A report describing the child’s prenatal care and medical condition at birth
The medical and genetic history of the child and any other relevant medical and genetic information
The medical and genetic histories of the birth parents and any medical and genetic information furnished by the birth parents about the child’s grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters
A report of any medical examination that either birth parent had within 1 year before the date of the petition
Citation: Ann. Stat. §§ 48.425; 48.93
The report shall be completed when a petition for the termination of parental rights is filed.At the time a court enters an order granting an adoption, a copy of the report shall be provided to the adoptive parents. The names and addresses of the child’s birth parents and the identity of any provider of health care to the child or the child’s birth parents shall be deleted from that copy of the report.
Citation: Ann. Stat. §§ 853.25; 854.21
If a will fails to provide for a child who was adopted after the execution of the will, and the testator had no child living when he or she executed the will, the omitted child receives a share in the estate equal in value to that which the child would have received under intestate succession. This paragraph does not apply if the will gave all or substantially all of the estate to the other parent of the omitted child and that other parent survives the testator and is entitled to take under the will.
A gift of property to a class of persons described as ‘issue,’ ‘children,’ ‘descendants,’ ‘heirs,’ ‘next of kin,’ or the like includes a person adopted by a person whose birth child would be a member of the class.
Citation: Ann. Stat. § 48.97 When the relationship of parent and child has been created by an order of adoption of a court of any other State or nation, the rights and obligations of the parties as to matters within the jurisdiction of this State shall be determined by § 48.92. If the adoptive parents were residents of this State at the time of the foreign adoption, the preceding sentence applies only if the department has approved the placement.
Citation: Ann. Stat. § 48.97 A child whose adoption would otherwise be valid under this section may be readopted in accordance with this chapter.
Citation: Ann. Stat. § 69.15(2)(b)