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CT Gen Stat § 45a-725. (Formerly Sec. 45-61j) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-725. (Formerly Sec. 45-61j) - When child free for adoption.

 A minor child shall be considered free for adoption and the Court of Probate may grant an application for the appointment of a statutory parent if any of the following have occurred: (a) The child has no living parents; (b) all parental rights have been terminated under Connecticut law; (c) (1) in the case of any child from outside the United States, its territories or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico placed for adoption by the Commissioner of Children and Families or by any child-placing agency, the petitioner has filed an affidavit that the child has no living parents or that the child is free for adoption and that the rights of all parties in connection with the child have been properly terminated under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the child was domiciled before being removed to the state of Connecticut; or (2) in the case of any child from any of the United States, its territories or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico placed by the Commissioner of Children and Families or a child-placing agency, the petitioner has filed an affidavit that the child has no living parents or has filed in court a certified copy of the court decree in which the rights of all parties in connection with the child have been terminated under the laws of the jurisdiction in which the child was domiciled before being removed to the state of Connecticut, and the child-placing agency obtained guardianship or other court authority to place the child for adoption. If no such affidavit or certified decree has been filed, then termination of parental rights proceedings shall be required.(P.A. 74-164, S. 7, 20; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 521, 610; P.A. 79-631, S. 81, 111; P.A. 80-476, S. 149; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; P.A. 96-130, S. 9; P.A. 98-52, S. 4.)History: P.A. 75-420 replaced welfare commissioner with commissioner of social services; P.A. 77-614 replaced social services commissioner with commissioner of human resources, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-631 replaced human resources commissioner with commissioner of children and youth services; P.A. 80-476 rephrased provisions; Sec. 45-61j transferred to Sec. 45a-725 in 1991; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 96-130 deleted list of specific statute sections governing termination of parental rights; P.A. 98-52 deleted former Subdiv. (b) re removal of parents as guardians of the person before October 1, 1973 and redesignated Subdivs. (c) and (d) as (b) and (c), respectively.Annotations to former section 45-61j:Cited. 168 C. 421.Cited. 41 CS 23.Annotations to present section:Cited. 46 CA 69.Cited. 45 CS 33.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-726. (Formerly Sec. 45-61l) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-726. (Formerly Sec. 45-61l) - Placement of adoptive children by Commissioner of Children and Families or child-placing agency.

 (a) If the Commissioner of Children and Families or a child-placing agency is appointed as statutory parent for any child free for adoption, the commissioner or such agency shall not refuse to place or delay placement of such child with any prospective adoptive parent solely on the basis of a difference in race, color or national origin.(b) The Commissioner of Children and Families or the child-placing agency, in determining placement for each child, shall focus on the particular needs of the child and the capacity of the prospective adoptive parent to meet such needs. Whenever possible, siblings should be placed with the same prospective adoptive parent unless it is determined not to be in the best interests of a sibling.(c) The Commissioner of Children and Families shall not discriminate in preparing a home study or in placing a child with a prospective adoptive parent based on whether the prospective parent is or is not willing to become a foster parent pending an adoption placement.(P.A. 86-330, S. 1; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; P.A. 96-130, S. 10; P.A. 99-166, S. 9; P.A. 00-137, S. 9.)History: Sec. 45-61l transferred to Sec. 45a-726 in 1991; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 96-130 deleted reference to Sec. 45a-725; P.A. 99-166 divided section into subsections and amended Subsec. (a) by adding “or a child-placing agency” and provision that placement shall not be refused or delayed on the basis of difference in race, color or national origin and added Subsec. (b) re focus on particular needs of child and capacity of prospective adoptive parents to meet such needs in determination of placement and that whenever possible siblings should be placed with same prospective adoptive parents, unless not in best interest of a sibling; P.A. 00-137 added Subsec. (c) prohibiting discrimination by commissioner in preparing home study or placing child with prospective adoptive parent based on whether prospective adoptive parent is or is not willing to become foster parent pending adoption.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-726a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-726a - Consideration of sexual orientation of prospective adoptive or foster parent.

 Section 45a-726a is repealed, effective July 1, 2013.(P.A. 91-58, S. 18; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; P.A. 96-130, S. 11; P.A. 13-81, S. 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-726b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-726b - Recruitment of minority families not to delay placement of adoptive child.

 The recruitment of minority families may not be a reason to delay placement of a child with an available family of a race or ethnicity different from that of the child.(P.A. 99-166, S. 14.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-726c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-726c - Term “adoptive parent” substituted for “adopting parent”.

 (a) Wherever the words “adopting parent” are used in the following general statutes, “adoptive parent” shall be substituted in lieu thereof: 45a-727, 45a-736 and 45a-746.(b) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying said sections of the general statutes pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, make such technical, grammatical and punctuation changes as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.(P.A. 14-104, S. 11.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-727a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-727a - Legislative findings re best interests of child.

 The General Assembly finds that:(1) The best interests of a child are promoted by having persons in the child's life who manifest a deep concern for the child's growth and development;(2) The best interests of a child are promoted when a child has as many persons loving and caring for the child as possible; and(3) The best interests of a child are promoted when the child is part of a loving, supportive and stable family, whether that family is a nuclear, extended, split, blended, single parent, adoptive or foster family.(P.A. 00-228, S. 1; P.A. 09-13, S. 9.)History: P.A. 09-13 deleted former Subdiv. (4) that provided “It is further found that the current public policy of the state of Connecticut is now limited to a marriage between a man and a woman”, effective April 23, 2009.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-727b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-727b - Endorsement of rights and responsibilities of unmarried persons to child subject to adoption, but not marriage or union of such persons.

 Section 45a-727b is repealed, effective July 1, 2013.(P.A. 00-228, S. 5; P.A. 13-81, S. 21.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-728. (Formerly Sec. 45-63b) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-728. (Formerly Sec. 45-63b) - Regulations re adoption placement of children identified or located by prospective parents.

 The Commissioner of Children and Families shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54 concerning adoption placement of children who have been identified or located by prospective adoptive parents. Such regulations shall provide that for adoptions involving an identified expectant mother, counseling of the birth mother shall be required within seventy-two hours of birth of the child, or as soon as medically possible after the birth, and that permissible payment of expenses for birth parent counseling shall include the cost of transportation. Such counseling may be provided by a person with a master's or doctoral degree in counseling, psychology or related mental health disciplines from an accredited college or university.(P.A. 85-285, S. 2, 4; P.A. 91-252, S. 1; P.A. 93-50; 93-81, S. 2; 93-91, S. 1, 2; P.A. 96-130, S. 13.)History: Sec. 45-63b transferred to Sec. 45a-728 in 1991; P.A. 91-252 added provision requiring regulations to provide that in identified adoptions involving expectant mother, counseling of mother shall be required within 72 hours of birth or as soon as medically possible; P.A. 93-50 added provision permitting counseling to be provided by person with masters or doctoral degree in counseling, psychology or related discipline; P.A. 93-81 added provision re permissible payment of counseling expenses to include cost of transportation; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 96-130 deleted obsolete reference to December 31, 1986.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-728a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-728a - Participation in birth and visitation of newborn identified for adoption by prospective adoptive parents.

 Prospective adoptive parents may participate in the labor and birth of the child identified for adoption and may visit with such newborn child, provided the birth mother, the child-placing agency and her physician agree and such participation and visitation are consistent with the medically necessary procedures of the hospital.(P.A. 91-252, S. 2; P.A. 96-130, S. 14.)History: P.A. 96-130 changed “adoption” to “child-placing” agencies.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-728b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-728b - Discharge of newborn identified for adoption from hospital. Prospective adoptive parents permitted to attend hospital programs re infant care.

 Any licensed hospital discharging a newborn infant identified for adoption to a child-placing agency shall arrange for the physical transfer of custody of such infant to take place in a safe, secure and private room on the hospital premises. The prospective adoptive parents may be present at the discharge with the approval of the child-placing agency. At the time of discharge, the hospital shall provide such prospective adoptive parents or child-placing agency with any nonidentifying information customarily provided to birth parents upon discharge concerning the care, feeding and health of the infant. The hospital shall provide the child-placing agency with the medical information concerning the birth mother and the infant within a reasonable time. Such prospective adoptive parents shall be permitted to participate in any program of instruction regarding infant care and child development that is made available by such licensed hospital to birth parents, provided such prospective adoptive parents pay the cost of such participation in such program.(P.A. 91-252, S. 3; P.A. 92-179, S. 3; P.A. 96-130, S. 15.)History: P.A. 92-179 amended provision re hospital discharge of newborn infant identified for adoption, permitting adoptive parents to be present at discharge with the approval of adoption agency, adding “nonidentifying” before “information”, requiring hospital to provide information re feeding of infant, and requiring hospital to provide adoption agency with medical information concerning birth mother and infant; P.A. 96-130 changed “adoption” to “child-placing” agencies.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-728c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-728c - Payment of expenses of birth mother by prospective adoptive parents.

 With respect to adoption placement of children who have been identified or located by prospective adoptive parents, payment for the living expenses of the birth mother by the prospective adoptive parents shall be permitted in an amount not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars or such amount as may be approved in unusual circumstances by the probate court for the district where the child-placing agency is located or where the prospective adoptive parents reside. In addition to the payment of living expenses, payment by the prospective adoptive parents of reasonable telephone and maternity clothing expenses of the birth mother shall be permitted.(P.A. 93-81, S. 1.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-728d (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-728d - Advertising by birth parent and prospective adoptive parent for purpose of identified adoption.

 Any birth parent may advertise through any public media in this state for the placement of his or her child for the purposes of identified adoption. Any prospective adoptive parent may advertise through any public media in this state for placement of a child into his or her care for the purposes of identified adoption.(P.A. 93-101; P.A. 96-130, S. 16.)History: P.A. 96-130 made a technical change.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-729. (Formerly Sec. 45-63c) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-729. (Formerly Sec. 45-63c) - Penalty for violation of provisions re adoption placement.

 Any person who places a child for adoption in violation of section 45a-727 or 45a-764 or assists in such a placement shall be guilty of a class D felony.(P.A. 85-285, S. 3, 4; P.A. 07-217, S. 165; P.A. 13-258, S. 109.)History: Sec. 45-63c transferred to Sec. 45a-729 in 1991; P.A. 07-217 made technical changes, effective July 12, 2007; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment of not less than 1 year or more than 5 years to a class D felony.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-730. (Formerly Sec. 45-63d) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-730. (Formerly Sec. 45-63d) - Validation of foreign adoption. Petition filed in Probate Court.

 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 45a-727, when the adoption of a minor child born outside the United States or its territories has been finalized in a jurisdiction other than the United States or its territories, and such minor is unable to obtain citizenship in the United States because the adoptive parents did not personally see and observe the child prior to or during the adoption proceedings, a petition for validation of such adoption may be filed with a court of probate.(b) The petition may be made by an adoptive parent or a duly authorized officer of any child-placing agency.(c) The petition shall be filed in the court of probate in which the petitioner resides or in the district in which the main office or any local office of the child-placing agency is located.(d) The petition shall be accompanied by an authenticated and exemplified copy of the adoption unless, upon a showing of good cause, the court waives such requirement.(e) Upon receipt of the petition the court shall hold a hearing on said petition within forty-five days and shall order such notice as it may direct.(f) The court may validate the adoption of the minor child if it finds after hearing that: (1) The adoption of the child born outside the United States or its territories occurred outside the United States or its territories and (2) United States Immigration and Naturalization Service refuses to naturalize said minor because the adoptive parents did not personally see and observe the child prior to or during the adoption proceedings, and (3) it is in the best interest of the child.(g) Any validation pursuant to a petition filed under this section shall not be construed to validate an adoption otherwise invalid in accordance with the law of the place of adoption.(P.A. 87-28; P.A. 96-130, S. 17.)History: Sec. 45-63d transferred to Sec. 45a-730 in 1991; P.A. 96-130 made technical change in Subsec. (f).
CT Gen Stat § 45a-731a (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-731a - Issuance of final adoption decree notwithstanding death of child.

 If (1) a minor child, free for adoption pursuant to section 45a-725 on or after January 1, 1995, was placed with prospective adoptive parents by the Commissioner of Children and Families or a licensed child-placing agency, (2) an application for adoption was filed with the court of probate having jurisdiction, and (3) the child died prior to April 30, 1995, the court may enter a final decree approving such adoption, notwithstanding the death of such minor child prior to the final adoption decree, provided such adoption is solely for the purpose of establishing a name for the child and rights concerning burial. No other right or responsibility shall inure as a result of an adoption approved pursuant to this section.(P.A. 95-316, S. 16.)
CT Gen Stat § 45a-732. (Formerly Sec. 45-62) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-732. (Formerly Sec. 45-62) - Husband and wife to join in adoption.

 A married person shall not adopt a child unless both husband and wife join in the adoption agreement, except that the Court of Probate may approve an adoption agreement by either of them upon finding that there is sufficient reason why the other should not join in the agreement.(1949 Rev., S. 6868; P.A. 73-156, S. 11; P.A. 80-476, S. 152.)History: P.A. 73-156 deleted detailed provisions re adoption by spouse of remarried widowed parent, of mother of child born out of wedlock, of single person who previously adopted a child, etc.; P.A. 80-476 reworded section; Sec. 45-62 transferred to Sec. 45a-732 in 1991.Annotations to former section 45-62:Cited. 152 C. 706.Where husband did not join in adoption, Probate Court was without jurisdiction to approve adoption agreement. 18 CS 181.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-735. (Formerly Sec. 45-68) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-735. (Formerly Sec. 45-68) - Husband or wife of adopted adult to consent.

 An agreement of adoption between persons of the age of majority shall not be approved without the written consent of the husband or wife, if any, of the adopted person.(1949 Rev., S. 6872; P.A. 80-476, S. 155.)History: P.A. 80-476 rephrased section but made no substantive change; Sec. 45-68 transferred to Sec. 45a-735 in 1991.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-736. (Formerly Sec. 45-66a) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-736. (Formerly Sec. 45-66a) - Change of name of adopted person.

 Any court of probate, as part of its approval of any agreement of adoption or declaration of an intention to adopt, may change the name of the person adopted, as requested by the adoptive parent or parents.(1949 Rev., S. 6873; P.A. 14-104, S. 11.)History: Sec. 45-69 transferred to Sec. 45-66a in 1979; Sec. 45-66a transferred to Sec. 45a-736 in 1991; pursuant to P.A. 14-104, “adopting parent” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “adoptive parent”, effective October 1, 2014.Annotation to former section 45-66a:Cited. 17 CA 627.
CT Gen Stat § 45a-737. (Formerly Sec. 45-66b) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 45a - Probate Courts and Procedure|Chapter 803 - Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption|Section 45a-737. (Formerly Sec. 45-66b) - Obliteration of original name on institutional records, new name substituted.

 Upon the request of an adopting parent of a child adopted under the provisions of section 45a-727, any public or quasi-public institution, including but not limited to schools and hospitals, shall obliterate the original family name of an adopted child and substitute the new name of the child on its records; except that the person in charge of the records may apply to the court of probate having jurisdiction over the adoption and show cause why the name shall not be substituted. The court may grant or deny the order for the substitution of names as it deems to be in the best interests of the child.(P.A. 75-150; P.A. 80-476, S. 156.)History: Sec. 45-69a transferred to Sec. 45-66b in 1979; P.A. 80-476 rephrased provisions; Sec. 45-66b transferred to Sec. 45a-737 in 1991.