Montana Code 42-2-224. Certified copy of registration form to be furnished upon request
42-2-224. Certified copy of registration form to be furnished upon request. The department shall furnish a certified copy of the putative father‘s registration form upon written request by:
Terms Used In Montana Code 42-2-224
- Adoption: means the act of creating the legal relationship between parent and child when it does not exist genetically. See Montana Code 42-1-103
- Adoptive parent: means an adult who has become the mother or father of a child through the legal process of adoption. See Montana Code 42-1-103
- Agency: means a child placement agency licensed by the state of Montana pursuant to Title 52, chapter 8, that is expressly empowered to place children preliminary to a possible adoption. See Montana Code 42-1-103
- Child: includes an unborn child. See Montana Code 42-2-201
- Court: means a court of record in a competent jurisdiction and in Montana means a district court or a tribal court. See Montana Code 42-1-103
- Department: means the department of public health and human services, provided for in 2-15-2201. See Montana Code 42-1-103
- Parent: means the birth or adoptive mother or the birth, adoptive, or legal father whose parental rights have not been terminated. See Montana Code 42-1-103
- Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- Putative father: means an individual who may be a child's birth father but who:
(i)is not married to the child's mother on or before the date that the child is born; or
(ii)has not established paternity of the child prior to the filing of a petition for termination of parental rights to the child for purposes of adoption. See Montana Code 42-2-201
(1)a putative father whose name appears on the registration form being requested;
(2)a mother whose name appears on the registration form being requested;
(3)upon reaching majority, a person who was the subject of a registration;
(4)a prospective adoptive parent or an attorney representing a prospective adoptive parent in a direct parental placement adoption who has the notarized consent of the birth mother;
(5)a licensed child-placing agency;
(6)a court that presides over a pending adoption;
(7)the child support enforcement division of the department; or
(8)a representative of the department involved in an adoption or a neglect and dependency proceeding under Title 41, chapter 3.