{"data":{"id":"us-mt/42-10-121","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"42-10-121","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in 42-10-121 through 42-10-128, the following definitions apply:\n(1) \"Adoption assistance agreement\" means an agreement for adoption assistance between adoptive parents and the state child welfare agency of the state that undertakes to provide the adoption assistance, including a subsidy agreement as provided in 42-10-108.\n(2) \"Adoption assistance state\" means the signatory state to an adoption assistance agreement in a particular case.\n(3) \"Residence state\" means the state of which the child is a resident by virtue of the residence of the adoptive parents.\n(4) \"State\" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or a territory or possession of or administered by the United States.","path":["TITLE 42. ADOPTION","CHAPTER 10. SUBSIDIZED ADOPTIONS","Part 1. Procedures"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0420/chapter_0100/part_0010/section_0210/0420-0100-0010-0210.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:55:19Z","sha256":"ee4f25c88d5a29fbd39c13b134d7735d2a2aa2593d70d0b5d39ab8036bf544ed","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/42-10-111","next":"us-mt/42-10-122"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}