Section 42-2-302 - Persons whose consent not requiredConsent to adoption of a child is not required from:
(1) an individual whose parental relationship to the child has been judicially terminated for unfitness or has been determined not to exist or who has waived parental rights;(2) a parent who has been judicially declared incompetent;(3) an individual who has not been married to the mother of the child and who, after the conception of the child, executes a notarized statement denying paternity or a notarized statement acknowledging paternity and denying any interest in the child; or(4) the personal representative of a deceased parent's estate.En. Sec. 40, Ch. 480, L. 1997.