{"data":{"id":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-48-3-233","jurisdiction":"us-nc","citation":"N.C. Gen. Stat. § 48-3-233","heading":"General adoption information.","body":"Within a reasonable time before an agency places a minor for adoption with a prospective adoptive parent, the agency shall provide or cause to be provided to the prospective adoptive parent general adoption information. The information shall address all of the following:\n(1)\tPossible physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral issues concerning all of the following:\na.\tIdentity, loss, and trauma that a minor might experience before, during, or after adoption.\nb.\tA minor leaving familiar ties and surroundings.\n(2)\tThe effect that access to resources, including health insurance, may have on the ability of an adoptive parent to meet the needs of a minor.\n(3)\tCauses of disruption of an adoptive placement or dissolution of an adoption and resources available to help avoid disruption or dissolution.\n(4)\tCriminal prohibitions under G.S. 14-321.2. (2025-25, s. 46(a).)","path":["Chapter 48. Adoptions.","Article 3. Adoption of Minors.","Part 2A. Information and Guidance."],"source_url":"https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_48/GS_48-3-233.html","current_through":"S.L. 2026-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T18:04:02Z","sha256":"af4ca2c7c2198ef5a8ae964bbb0e98be14db2b617044c9ae3a11a05947c39a41","source_id":"us-nc","stale":false,"prev":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-48-3-232","next":"us-nc/n.c.-gen.-stat.-48-3-234"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}