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2018 Georgia Code 19-8-20.1 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 19 DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Section 8. Adoption, 19-8-1 through 19-8-43.

ARTICLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS (EFFECTIVE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1, 2018)

19-8-20. (Effective September 1, 2018) Forwarding of decree, report, and subsequent orders to department; issuance of adoption certificate; use as evidence.

  1. Upon the entry of the decree of adoption, the clerk of the court granting the same shall forward a copy of the decree, together with the original of the investigation report and background information filed with the court, to the department.If there is any subsequent order or revocation of the adoption, a copy of same in like manner shall be forwarded by the clerk to the department.
  2. At any time after the entry of the decree of adoption, upon the request of an adopted individual who has reached 18 years of age or upon the request of any adopting parent, the clerk of the court granting the decree shall issue to that requesting adopted individual or adopting parent a certificate of adoption, under the seal of the court, upon payment to the clerk of the fee prescribed in paragraph (4) of subsection (g) of Code Section 15-6-77, which adoption certificate shall be received as evidence in any court or proceeding as primary evidence of the facts contained in the certificate.

(c) The adoption certificate shall conform substantially to the following form:

This is to certify that _____________ (names of each adopting parent) have obtained a decree of adoption for _____________ (full name of adoptee and date of birth of adoptee) in the Superior Court of _____________ County, Georgia, on the ________ day of ________, as shown by the court's records _____________ (adoption file number). Given under the hand and seal of said court, this the ________ day of ________, ________. ________________________ Clerk

(Code 1981, §19-8-20, enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1572, § 5; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1324, § 4; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1640, § 8; Ga. L. 2018, p. 19, § 1-1/HB 159.)

Delayed effective date.

- For information as to the delayed amendment of this article, see the delayed effective date note at the beginning of this article.

The 2018 amendment, effective September 1, 2018, inserted a comma following "the adoption" in the middle of the second sentence of subsection (a); substituted "individual" for "person" twice in subsection (b); in subsection (c), substituted "shall conform substantially to" for "shall be in substantially" in the introductory paragraph, inserted quotes around the form, and substituted "adoptee and date of birth of adoptee" for "adopted child" in the middle of the form.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Editor's notes.

- In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, decisions under Ga. L. 1941, p. 300, § 14 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Order need not state that investigative report was considered by court.

- When transcript of evidence reflects that trial court gave consideration to investigative report by Department of Human Resources as required by Ga. L. 1941, p. 300, § 14, before making the court's decision, the fact that such court did not explicitly state in the order that the report was considered was not ground for reversing the judgment. Wellfort v. Bowick, 147 Ga. App. 565, 249 S.E.2d 363 (1978) (decided under Ga. L. 1941, p. 300, § 14).

Cited in Ellison v. Thompson, 240 Ga. 594, 242 S.E.2d 95 (1978).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 2 C.J.S., Adoption of Persons, § 6.

ALR.

- Necessity of notice to parents before adoption of child, 24 A.L.R. 416; 76 A.L.R. 1077.

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