Amendment H-8147 to HF 2474
Relating to adoption proceedings by providing for representation of adoptive parents and guardians ad litem by local public defenders for children in certain adoption proceedings and modifying filing requirements for adoption petitions and notice requirements for adoption hearings of adults
Adopted · March 14, 2022
Filed March 7, 2022 in the House by
What it changes
- Page 1, line 3, by striking “an indigent a” and inserting “an indigent”
- Page 1, line 7, by striking “indigent” and inserting “indigent”
- Page 1, line 9, by striking “an indigent a” and inserting “an indigent”
- Page 1, line 14, after “office” by inserting “or designee”
- Page 1, line 15, after “party” by inserting “including a nonindigent party”
- Page 1, line 32, after “office” by inserting “or designee”
- Page 2, after line 6 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 600.6, subsection 1, Code 2022, is amended to read as follows:
- A certified copy of the birth certificate showing parentage of the person to be adopted or, if such certificate is not available, a verified birth record. The department of human services shall provide a certified copy of a birth certificate to the person adopting a child when the department of human services is the guardian of the child. Sec. ___. Section 600.11, Code 2022, is amended to read as follows: 600.11 Notice of adoption hearing.
- The juvenile court or court shall set the time and place of the adoption hearing prescribed in section 600.12 upon application of the petitioner. The juvenile court or court may continue the adoption hearing if the notice prescribed in subsections 2 and 3 4 or subsections 3 and 4, as applicable, is given, except that such notice shall only be given at least ten days prior to the date which has been set for the continuation of the adoption hearing.
- a. At Unless the person to be adopted is an adult and subsection 3 is applicable, at least twenty days before the adoption hearing, a copy of the petition and its attachments and a notice of the adoption hearing shall be given by the adoption petitioner to all of the following : (1) A guardian, guardian ad litem if appointed for the adoption proceedings, and custodian of, and a person in a parent-child relationship with the person to be adopted. This subparagraph does not require notice to be given to a person whose parental rights have been terminated with regard to the person to be adopted. (2) The person to be adopted who is an adult. (3) (2) Any person who is designated to make an investigation and report under section 600.8 . (4) (3) Any other person who is required to consent under section 600.7 . (5) (4) A person who has been granted visitation rights with the child to be adopted pursuant to section 600C.1 . (6) (5) A person who is ordered to pay support or a postsecondary education subsidy pursuant to section 598.21F , or chapter 234 , 252A , 252C , 252F , 598 , 600B , or any other chapter of the Code, for a person eighteen years of age or older who is being adopted by a stepparent, and the support order or order requires payment of support or postsecondary education subsidy for any period of time after the child reaches eighteen years of age. b. Nothing in this subsection shall require the petitioner to give notice to self or to petitioner’s spouse. A duplicate copy of the petition and its attachments shall be mailed to the department by the clerk of court at the time the petition is filed.
- If the person to be adopted is an adult, at least twenty days before the adoption hearing, a copy of the petition and its attachments and a notice of the adoption hearing shall be given by the adoption petitioner to the person to be adopted and any other person who is required to consent to the adoption under section 600.7.
- A notice of the adoption hearing shall state the time, place, and purpose of the hearing and shall be served in accordance with rule of civil procedure 1.305 . Proof of the giving of notice shall be filed with the juvenile court or court prior to the adoption hearing. Acceptance of service by the party being given notice shall satisfy the requirements of this subsection .”
- Title page, line 1, after “Act” by inserting “relating to adoption proceedings by”
- Title page, line 3, after “proceedings” by inserting “and modifying filing requirements for adoption petitions and notice requirements for adoption hearings of adults”
- By renumbering as necessary.