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Chapter 48
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Adoption.
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48-22-101
Applicability of definitions.
48-22-102
Abandonment defined.
48-22-103
Adoptive parents, adoptive mother or adoptive father defined.
48-22-104
Agency defined.
48-22-105
Birth father defined.
48-22-106
Birth mother defined.
48-22-107
Birth parents defined.
48-22-108
Consent defined.
48-22-109
Determined father defined.
48-22-110
Legal father defined.
48-22-111
Marital child defined.
48-22-112
Nonmarital child defined.
48-22-113
Outsider father defined.
48-22-114
Putative father defined.
48-22-115
Relinquishment defined.
48-22-116
Stepparent adoption defined.
48-22-117
Unknown father defined.
48-22-201
Persons who may petition for decree of adoption.
48-22-301
Persons whose consent or relinquishment is required; exceptions.
48-22-302
Timing and execution of consent or relinquishment.
48-22-303
Content of consent or relinquishment.
48-22-304
Consent or relinquishment by infants.
48-22-305
Revocation of consent or relinquishment for adoption.
48-22-306
Conduct presumptively constituting abandonment.
48-22-401
Delivery of child for adoption; written recital of circumstances.
48-22-501
Filing of petition for adoption.
48-22-502
Petition and appendix.
48-22-601
Who shall receive notice.
48-22-602
How notice is to be served.
48-22-603
Notice to an unknown father.
48-22-701
Proceedings.
48-22-702
Recordation 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.
48-22-703
Effect of order as to relations of parents and child and as to rights of inheritance; intestacy of adopted child.
48-22-704
Finality of order; challenges to order of adoption.
48-22-801
Adoption of adults.
48-22-802
Contracts limiting or restraining adoptions.
48-22-803
W. Va. Code § 48-22-803
Repealed
48-22-901
Recognition of foreign adoption decree.
48-22-902
Filing of petition for recognition of foreign adoption decree.
48-22-903
Proceedings for recognition of foreign adoption decree.