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Committee advances two adoption-related measures: enforceable post-adoption contact agreements to print and counseling included in birth-parent reimbursement
Summary
Committee voted to send RS32268 (post-adoption contact agreements) to print and to send Senate Bill 11-04 to the Senate floor with a due pass recommendation. Sponsors and advocates said the measures are voluntary and intended to clarify options and reimbursements for birth parents and adoptive families.
Senator Julie Van Norden introduced RS 32268, a drafting request concerning post-adoption contact agreements. Van Norden said the RS would make clear that when the parties voluntarily sign a post-adoption contact agreement it could be approved by the court and made enforceable without making adoption contingent on such an agreement. She said the agreement would not prevent adoptive parents from moving…
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