Any child legally available for adoption as provided in
section 19-5-203, under eighteen years of age, and either present in the state at the time the
petition for adoption is filed or under the jurisdiction of a court in Colorado for at least six
months may be adopted. Upon approval of the court, a person eighteen years of age or older and
under twenty-one years of age may be adopted as a child, and all provisions of this part 2
referring to the adoption of a child shall apply to such a person.
Source: L. 87: Entire title R&RE, p. 805, § 1, effective October 1. L. 2017: Entire
section amended, (HB 17-1304), ch. 339, p. 1807, § 1, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section was contained in a title that was repealed and reenacted in
1987. Provisions of this section, as it existed in 1987, are similar to those contained in 19-4-105
as said section existed in 1986, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this title.
Notes of Decisions
In Re the Adoption of T.K.J., 931 P.2d 488 (Colo. Ct. App. 1996).
· cites it 8× “Petitioners first contend that the district court erred in determining that, because they were not married and each declined to relinquish her parent-child relationship with her natural child, the children were not available for adoption.”
In re Marriage of Hogsett & Neale, 2021 CO 1 (Colo. 2021).
“Laws 752 , 752 (“eliminat[ing] and moderniz[ing] the outdated use of the terms ‘illegitimate child’ or ‘legitimate child’ or related terms” in the Colorado Revised Statutes).”
In re the Marriage of Edi L. HOGSETT v. Marcia E. NEALE, 478 P.3d 713 (Colo. 2021).
“For that matter, parentage today takes many forms; married or not, many parents have children through adoption, §§ 19-5-201 to - 203, C.R.S. ( 2020 ) (permitting individual, marital, stepparent, and second-parent adoption) , or assisted reproductive technologies, see In re…”
Petition of SO, 795 P.2d 254 (Colo. 1990).
· cites it 2× “Adoption in Colorado is a creature of statutory law and is governed by the provisions set out in sections 19-5-201 to -215, 8B C.R.S. (1989 Supp.”
Herrera Ex Rel. Mota v. Glau, 772 P.2d 682 (Colo. Ct. App. 1989).
· cites it 2× “” See also § 19-5-201, C.R.S. (1988 Cum. Supp.) (court approval required for adoption of person between 18 and 21 years of age).”
Burnett v. Maddocks, 881 N.W.2d 185 (Neb. 2016).
“Instead, he adopted Burnett under Colo. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 14-1-101 (West 2016).”
In re the Adoption of K.L.L., 160 P.3d 383 (Colo. Ct. App. 2007).
· cites it 3× “" Section 19-5-201, C.R.8.2006. Here, the trial court found that it had jurisdiction over the child, who had been in the State of Colorado for the preceding twenty-three months.”
In re the D.S.L., 18 P.3d 856 (Colo. Ct. App. 2001).
“However, we conclude that $ 19-5-105 does not authorize termination of the parent-child legal relationship of the other parent in anticipation of a possible stepparent adoption. Section 19-5-105 is part of the legislative article on relinquishment.”
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