GroundRules
19 GCA § 4204: Prerequisite to Petition.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 19: Personal Relations
- Division 1 - Persons & Personal Relations
- Chapter 4: Parent and Child
- ARTICLE 2: CHILDREN BY ADOPTION
Except when a petition is filed by a relative of the child within the second degree either by blood or affinity, no petition for adoption shall be entertained unless prior to the filing of the petition:
(a) a decree of termination of the parent-child relation-ship with respect to each living parent of the child sought to be adopted has been entered; and
(b) the child sought to be adopted has been placed for adoption with the petitioner by the Division.
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