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Utah Code § 80-2-808: Division termination or modification of adoption assistance.

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  1. Title 80 Utah Juvenile Code
  2. Chapter 80-2 Child Welfare Services
  3. Part 80-2-8 Division Child Placing and Adoption Services

(1) The division may not terminate or modify adoption assistance unless the division gives the adoptive parents notice and opportunity for a hearing as required in Title 63G, Chapter 4, Administrative Procedures Act.

(2) The division shall terminate adoption assistance if any of the following occur:

(a) the adoptive parents request termination;

(b) subject to Subsection (3), the child reaches 18 years old, unless the division gives approval to continue beyond 18 years old due to mental or physical disability;

(c) the child dies;

(d) the adoptive parents die;

(e) the adoptive parents' legal responsibility for the child ceases;

(f) the state determines that the child is no longer receiving support from the adoptive parents;

(g) the child marries; or

(h) the child enters military service.

(3) Adoption assistance may not continue after the day on which the child reaches 21 years old.

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