O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 19-8-28 (2019)

Adoption of an orphan

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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When a child is an orphan, the petitioner shall not be required to have a guardian appointed for such child in order for a guardian to execute a surrender of rights. Such child shall be adoptable without a surrender of rights.

History

Code 1981, § 19-8-28, enacted by Ga. L. 2018, p. 19, § 1-1/HB 159.

ARTICLE 2 EMBRYO TRANSFERS

Annotations

Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 2009, p. 800, § 1/HB 388, not codified by the General Assembly, pro-

vides that: “This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Option of Adoption Act.’”