HB497 - Adoption; surrender rights; provisions
HB497 - Adoption; surrender rights; provisions
Sponsored by: Sheldon,Donna 105th
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 19 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to adoption, so as to provide for pre-birth surrender of rights for a biological father to a child being placed for adoption; to provide for the dissolution of surrender rights signed by the birth mother if the biological father legitimates the child and the adoption is not granted; to clarify the authority of a birth mother to sign either a voluntary acknowledgment of legitimation or of paternity following her execution of a surrender of parental rights in support of an adoption of the same child; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.