Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 78B-24-305 - Guidance and instruction(1) A child-placing agency placing a child for adoption shall provide or cause to be provided to the prospective adoptive parent guidance and instruction specific to the child to help prepare the parent to respond effectively to needs of the child which are known or reasonably ascertainable by the child-placing agency.(2) The guidance and instruction under Subsection (1) shall address, if applicable: (a) the potential effect on the child of: (i) previous adoption or out-of-home placement;(ii) multiple previous adoptions or out-of-home placements;(iii) trauma, insecure attachment, fetal alcohol exposure, or malnutrition;(iv) neglect, abuse, drug exposure, or similar adversity;(v) separation from a sibling or significant caregiver; and(vi) a difference in ethnicity, race, or cultural identity between the child and the prospective adoptive parent or other child of the parent;(b) information available from the federal government on the process for the child to acquire United States citizenship; and(c) any other matter the child-placing agency considers material to the adoption.(3) The guidance and instruction under Subsection (1) shall be provided: (a) for adoption of a child residing in the United States, a reasonable time before the adoption is finalized; or(b) for an intercountry adoption, in accordance with federal law.Added by Chapter 326, 2022 General Session ,§ 14, eff. 5/4/2022.