C.R.S. Section 19-5-100.2
Legislative declaration

(1)

The general assembly hereby finds that parental relinquishment and adoption of children are important and necessary options to facilitate the permanent placement of minor children if the birth parents are unable or unwilling to provide proper parental care. The general assembly further finds that adoption offers significant psychological, legal, economic, and social benefits not only for children who might otherwise be homeless but also for parents who are unable to care for their children and for adoptive parents who desire children to nurture, care for, and support. Conversely, the general assembly recognizes that disrupted adoptive placements often have a profound and negative impact on individuals, particularly children, involved in the adoption proceedings.

(2)

It is the purpose of this article 5 to promote the integrity and finality of adoptions to ensure that children placed in adoptive placements will be raised in stable, loving, and permanent families. It is the further intent of the general assembly that a prospective parent with a disability should not be denied the opportunity to provide a permanent adoptive placement for a child based solely on the parent’s disability, as provided for in section 24-34-805 (2). The general assembly intends that by enacting this legislation, it will be protecting children from being uprooted from adoptive placements and from the life-long emotional and psychological trauma that often accompanies being indiscriminately moved.

Source: Section 19-5-100.2 — Legislative declaration, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-19.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

19‑5‑100.2
Legislative declaration 19‑5‑100.5
Applicability of article 19‑5‑101
Termination of the parent-child legal relationship 19‑5‑102
Venue 19‑5‑102.5
Relinquishment hearings - court docket priority 19‑5‑103
Relinquishment procedure - petition - hearings 19‑5‑103.5
Expedited relinquishment procedure - children under one year of age - other birth parents - notice - termination 19‑5‑103.7
Anticipated expedited relinquishment - children under one year of age - notice to other or possible parent - administrative procedures 19‑5‑104
Final order of relinquishment 19‑5‑105
Proceeding to terminate parent-child legal relationship 19‑5‑105.5
Termination of parent-child legal relationship upon a finding that the child was conceived as a result of sexual assault - legislative declaration - definitions 19‑5‑105.7
Termination of parent-child legal relationship in a case of an allegation that a child was conceived as a result of sexual assault but in which no conviction occurred - legislative declaration - definitions 19‑5‑108
When notice of relinquishment proceedings required 19‑5‑109
Birth parent access to records related to relinquishment of parental rights 19‑5‑200.2
Legislative declaration 19‑5‑201
Who may be adopted 19‑5‑202
Who may adopt 19‑5‑202.5
Adoption hearings - termination appeals - court docket priority - exceptions 19‑5‑203
Availability for adoption 19‑5‑203.5
Confirmatory adoption - short title - definitions 19‑5‑204
Venue 19‑5‑205
Adoption decree of foreign country approved 19‑5‑205.5
Nonpublic agency interstate and foreign adoptions - authority for state department to select agencies - legislative declaration 19‑5‑206
Placement for purposes of adoption 19‑5‑207
Written consent and home study report for public adoptions - fingerprint-based criminal history record checks - investigation - rules 19‑5‑207.3
Placement of sibling groups 19‑5‑207.5
Legislative declaration - standardized home studies - adoptive family resource registry - rules 19‑5‑208
Petition for adoption - open adoption - post-adoption contact agreement 19‑5‑209
Petition - written home study reports 19‑5‑210
Hearing on petition 19‑5‑211
Legal effects of final decree 19‑5‑212
Copies of order of adoption - to whom given 19‑5‑213
Compensation for placing child prohibited 19‑5‑213.5
Unauthorized advertising for adoption purposes - exceptions - penalty - definitions 19‑5‑214
Limitation on annulment of adoption - best interests standard 19‑5‑216
Increased access for adoption - study 19‑5‑217
Enforcement or termination of post-adoption contact agreement 19‑5‑301
Legislative declaration 19‑5‑303
Commission created - duties 19‑5‑304
Confidential intermediaries - confidential intermediary services 19‑5‑305
Access to adoption records - contact with parties to adoption - contact preference form and updated medical history statement - definitions 19‑5‑305.5
Access to personal records relating to a former ward of the state home for dependent and neglected children - other eligible parties - definitions 19‑5‑306
Public information campaign 19‑5‑307
Child placement agency - transfer of records 19‑5‑402
Access to nonidentifying information 19‑5‑403
Authority for department to select agencies
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Current through Fall 2024

§ 19-5-100.2’s source at colorado​.gov