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Prior to placement for adoption, the agency shall compile and provide to the prospective adoptive parents a detailed written health history and genetic and social history of the child. These histories must exclude information that would identify birth parents or members of a birth parent’s family.Records containing such nonidentifying information shall be retained by the clerk of the court for 99 years, and shall be available upon request, together with any additional nonidentifying information that may have been added on health or genetic and social history, to any person listed above.
Citation: Ann. Code § 48-23-601 The licensed adoption agency or, where an agency is not involved, the person, entity, or organization handling the adoption, shall compile and provide to the prospective adoptive parents a detailed, written, health history and genetic and social histories of the child.
Citation: Ann. Code §§ 48-23-601; 48-23-207
The prospective adoptive parents shall be given a detailed written health history and genetic and social history of the child. A health history is a comprehensive report of the child’s health status at the time of placement for adoption and medical history, including neonatal, psychological, physiological, and medical care history.
Citation: Ann. Code §§ 48-23-601; 48-23-206
A genetic and social history is a comprehensive report on the birth parents, siblings to the birth parents, if any, other children of either birth parent, if any, and parents of the birth parents that shall contain the following information:
Where appropriate, levels of educational and professional achievement
These histories must exclude information that would identify birth parents or members of a birth parent’s family.
Citation: Ann. Code § 48-23-601 The report must be provided to the prospective adoptive parents prior to placement of the child for adoption.
Upon the entry of the final adoption decree, the birth parents shall be divested of all legal rights, including the right of inheritance from or through the adopted child.Such child shall not inherit from any person entitled to parental rights prior to the adoption or their kindred, except that a child legally adopted by a husband or wife of a person entitled to parental rights prior to the adoption shall inherit from such person as well as from the adopting parent.
Citation: Ann. Code § 48-22-901
Citation: Ann. Code §§ 48-22-902; 48-22-903
Citation: Ann. Code §§ 16-5-16(a); 16-5-18(h)