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Adoption.

48-22-101Applicability of definitions.48-22-102Abandonment defined.48-22-103Adoptive parents, adoptive mother or adoptive father defined.48-22-104Agency defined.48-22-105Birth father defined.48-22-106Birth mother defined.48-22-107Birth parents defined.48-22-108Consent defined.48-22-109Determined father defined.48-22-110Legal father defined.48-22-111Marital child defined.48-22-112Nonmarital child defined.48-22-113Outsider father defined.48-22-114Putative father defined.48-22-115Relinquishment defined.48-22-116Stepparent adoption defined.48-22-117Unknown father defined.48-22-201Persons who may petition for decree of adoption.48-22-301Persons whose consent or relinquishment is required; exceptions.48-22-302Timing and execution of consent or relinquishment.48-22-303Content of consent or relinquishment.48-22-304Consent or relinquishment by infants.48-22-305Revocation of consent or relinquishment for adoption.48-22-306Conduct presumptively constituting abandonment.48-22-401Delivery of child for adoption; written recital of circumstances.48-22-501Filing of petition for adoption.48-22-502Petition and appendix.48-22-601Who shall receive notice.48-22-602How notice is to be served.48-22-603Notice to an unknown father.48-22-701Proceedings.48-22-702Recordation 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.48-22-703Effect of order as to relations of parents and child and as to rights of inheritance; intestacy of adopted child.48-22-704Finality of order; challenges to order of adoption.48-22-801Adoption of adults.48-22-802Contracts limiting or restraining adoptions.48-22-901Recognition of foreign adoption decree.48-22-902Filing of petition for recognition of foreign adoption decree.48-22-903Proceedings for recognition of foreign adoption decree.