Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- Section 36-1-101 - Purpose of part - Construction
- Section 36-1-102 - Part definitions
- Section 36-1-103 - Prior adoptions and terminations of parental rights involving minors and prior adoptions of adults ratified
- Section 36-1-104 - Withholding of material information concerning the status of the parents or guardian of a child subject to surrender, termination of parental rights or adoption - Misdemeanor
- Section 36-1-105 - Violation of criminal provisions of part by state employee - Dismissal
- Section 36-1-106 - Readoption
- Section 36-1-107 - Persons to whom this part is applicable
- Section 36-1-108 - Entities authorized to place children for adoption - Advisory and agency capacity authorized - Injunction to stop illegal payments
- Section 36-1-109 - Illegal payments in connection with placement of child - Penalty
- Section 36-1-110 - Parent under eighteen years of age - Surrender
- Section 36-1-111 - Presurrender request for home study or preliminary home study - Surrender of child - Consent for adoption by parent - Effect of Surrender - Form of surrender - Waiver of interest - Interpreter for non-English speaking parents
- Section 36-1-112 - Revocation of surrender or parental consent - Form
- Section 36-1-113 - Termination of parental or guardianship rights
- Section 36-1-114 - Venue
- Section 36-1-115 - Persons eligible to file adoption petition - Residence requirements - Preference for foster parents
- Section 36-1-116 - Home study - Adoption petition - Order of reference
- Section 36-1-117 - Parties to proceedings - Termination of rights of putative father - Consent of parent or guardian - Service of process
- Section 36-1-118 - Dismissal of adoption proceedings and guardianship orders - Revocation of surrender by court - Notice - Disposition of child
- Section 36-1-119 - Final order of adoption - When entered
- Section 36-1-120 - Final order of adoption - Contents - Report of foreign birth
- Section 36-1-121 - Effect of adoption on relationship
- Section 36-1-122 - Binding effect of adoption
- Section 36-1-123 - Biological parents illegally obtaining custody of a child - Custodial interference - Survival of existing restraining order
- Section 36-1-124 - Contested terminations of parental rights and adoptions - Appeals - Expedited schedule
- Section 36-1-125 - Confidentiality of records - Penalties for unauthorized disclosure - Protected orders
- Section 36-1-126 - Record kept under seal - Confidential records - Access to certain records - Preservation of records
- Section 36-1-127 - Availability of records to adopted persons and certain other persons for adoptions finalized or attempted prior to certain dates
- Section 36-1-128 - [Repealed]
- Section 36-1-129 - [Repealed]
- Section 36-1-130 - [Repealed]
- Section 36-1-131 - [Repealed]
- Section 36-1-132 - [Repealed]
- Section 36-1-133 - Release of nonidentifying information concerning biological or legal family
- Section 36-1-134 - Transmission of information between affected parties - Access to records of deceased or disabled persons - Updating of information to allow contact
- Section 36-1-135 - Updated medical information in records - Searches for persons affected
- Section 36-1-136 - Notification made as part of search, contact or identifying requests
- Section 36-1-137 - Inability of department to verify adoptive status of relationships - Waiting period to request further searches - Limitations on searches
- Section 36-1-138 - Court orders for the release of information from adoption and sealed records
- Section 36-1-139 - Penalty for providing false information related to information requests
- Section 36-1-140 - Immunity for actions in good faith by department personnel and immunity of certain other persons
- Section 36-1-141 - Fees for searches, and copies - Promulgation of rules - Forms
- Section 36-1-142 - Voluntary delivery of infant - Notifications - Revocation of voluntary delivery - Termination of parental rights
- Section 36-1-143 - Post-adoption services to support permanency in adoption
- Section 36-1-144 - Categories of information to be provided to adoptive family
- Section 36-1-145 - Written contract for post-adoption contact between certain parties - Requirements - Enforcement - Modification - Termination
- Section 36-1-146 - Rebuttable presumption that guardian ad litem's fees divided equally between parties
- Section 36-1-147 - Private licensed child-placing agencies
- Section 36-1-148 - Immunization not condition of adoption - Exceptions
- Section 36-1-149 - Confidential adoption record as public records and open to inspection after 100 years have elapsed