New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:8 – Immediate Surrender Prohibited; Availability of Counseling
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I. No surrender shall be taken until a passage of a minimum of 72 hours after the birth of the child.
II. Any parent wishing to surrender his or her parental rights for the adoption of a child shall be informed by the parent’s legal counsel, or if counsel has been waived, by the potential adoptive parents or by their attorney, physician or any intermediary, acting in their behalf or a licensed child-placing agency, that child-placing agencies licensed under N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 170-E are available to provide counseling about the parent’s decision to place the child for adoption.
II. Any parent wishing to surrender his or her parental rights for the adoption of a child shall be informed by the parent’s legal counsel, or if counsel has been waived, by the potential adoptive parents or by their attorney, physician or any intermediary, acting in their behalf or a licensed child-placing agency, that child-placing agencies licensed under N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapter 170-E are available to provide counseling about the parent’s decision to place the child for adoption.
Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:8
- Agency: means any person licensed by existing law to place minors for adoption. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
- Child: means a son or daughter, whether by birth or by adoption. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
- Parent: means mother, birth father, legal father, or adoptive parent, but such term shall not include a parent as to whom the parent-child relationship has been terminated by judicial decree or voluntarily surrender. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2
- Surrender: means the release of all parental rights, including but not limited to care, custody, and control of the child, by a parent, legal guardian, or agency. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-B:2