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- W. Va. Code § 48-20-317 · Costs and expenses.
- W. Va. Code § 48-20-401 · Application and construction.
- W. Va. Code § 48-20-402 · Severability clause.
- W. Va. Code § 48-20-403 · Effective date.
- W. Va. Code § 48-20-404 · Transitional provision.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-101 · Applicability of definitions.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-102 · Abandonment defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-103 · Adoptive parents, adoptive mother or adoptive father defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-104 · Agency defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-105 · Birth father defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-106 · Birth mother defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-107 · Birth parents defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-108 · Consent defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-109 · Determined father defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-110 · Legal father defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-111 · Marital child defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-112 · Nonmarital child defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-113 · Outsider father defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-114 · Putative father defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-115 · Relinquishment defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-116 · Stepparent adoption defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-117 · Unknown father defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-201 · Persons who may petition for decree of adoption.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-301 · Persons whose consent or relinquishment is required; exceptions.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-302 · Timing and execution of consent or relinquishment.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-303 · Content of consent or relinquishment.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-304 · Consent or relinquishment by infants.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-305 · Revocation of consent or relinquishment for adoption.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-306 · Conduct presumptively constituting abandonment.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-401 · Delivery of child for adoption; written recital of circumstances.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-501 · Filing of petition for adoption.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-502 · Petition and appendix.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-601 · Who shall receive notice.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-602 · How notice is to be served.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-603 · Notice to an unknown father.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-701 · Proceedings.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-702 · Recordation of order; fees; disposition of records; names of adopting parents and persons previously entitled to parental rights not to be disclosed; disclosure of identifying and nonidentifying information; certificate for state registrar of vital statistics; birth certificate.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-703 · Effect of order as to relations of parents and child and as to rights of inheritance; intestacy of adopted child.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-704 · Finality of order; challenges to order of adoption.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-801 · Adoption of adults.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-802 · Contracts limiting or restraining adoptions.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-803 · §48-22-803.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-901 · Recognition of foreign adoption decree.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-902 · Filing of petition for recognition of foreign adoption decree.
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-903 · Proceedings for recognition of foreign adoption decree.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-101 · Policy regarding persons obtaining identifying information after adoption.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-102 · Legislative purpose.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-201 · Applicability of definitions.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-202 · Adoptee defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-203 · Adoption defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-204 · Adult defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-205 · Agency defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-206 · Genetic and social history defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-207 · Health history defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-208 · Mutual consent voluntary adoption registry or registry defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-209 · Putative father defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-301 · Division of human services to establish and maintain mutual consent voluntary adoption registry.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-401 · Persons to whom use of the mutual consent voluntary adoption registry is available.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-402 · Age limitations on use of the mutual consent voluntary adoption registry.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-403 · Registration by a birth father.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-404 · Registration by a birth parent who used an alias in terminating parental rights.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-501 · Prerequisites to disclosure of identifying information.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-502 · Counseling of registrants.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-503 · Cases where disclosure of identifying information cannot occur.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-504 · Matching and disclosure procedures.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-505 · Retention of data by the registry.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-506 · Scope of information obtained by the mutual consent voluntary adoption registry.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-507 · Fees for operations of the mutual consent voluntary adoption registry.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-601 · Compilation of nonidentifying information on health history and social and genetic history.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-701 · Prohibited conduct.
- W. Va. Code § 48-23-801 · Nondisclosure.
- W. Va. Code § 48-24-101 · Paternity proceedings.
- W. Va. Code § 48-24-102 · Statute of limitations; prior statute of limitations not a bar to action under this article; effect of prior adjudication between husband and wife.
- W. Va. Code § 48-24-103 · Medical testing procedures to aid in the determination of paternity.
- W. Va. Code § 48-24-104 · Establishment of paternity and duty of support.
- W. Va. Code § 48-24-105 · Representation of parties.
- W. Va. Code § 48-24-106 · Establishing paternity by acknowledgment of natural father.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25-101 · Petition to circuit court or family court for change of name; contents thereof; notice of application.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25-102 · Objections to change of name.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25-103 · When court may or may not order change of name.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25-104 · Recordation of order changing name.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25-105 · When new name to be used.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25-106 · Unlawful change of name.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25-107 · Unlawful change of name by certain felons and registrants.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25A-1 · §48-25A-1.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25A-2 · §48-25A-2.
- W. Va. Code § 48-25A-3 · §48-25A-3.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-101 · Title.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-201 · Applicability of definitions.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-202 · Advocacy defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-203 · Abuse Intervention Program defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-204 · Board defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-205 · Closure defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-206 · Department defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-207 · Domestic Violence Legal Services Fund defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-208 · Domestic violence program defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-209 · Family Protection Fund defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-210 · Intimate partner defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-211 · Licenses defined.
- W. Va. Code § 48-26-212 · Monitored parenting and exchange defined.