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CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC RELATIONS.

ARTICLE 23. VOLUNTARY ADOPTION REGISTRY.

§48-23-402. Age limitations on use of the mutual consent voluntary adoption registry.

(a) A birth parent is not eligible to use the registry until his or her child who was adopted is eighteen years of age or older.

(b) An adult adoptee is not eligible to use the registry if he or she has a sibling in his or her adoptive family who is under the age of eighteen years.

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