Family Law – Adoption of an Adult

HB 214 Family Law – Adoption of an Adult

Maryland 2024 Regular Session

Family Law – Adoption of an Adult
HB-214


About HB-214

Establishing that certain provisions of law requiring the issuance and service of a show-cause order on a prospective adoptee's parents do not apply if the prospective adoptee is an adult; authorizing a court to order, for good cause shown, certain investigations before ruling on certain adoption petitions involving a prospective adoptee who is an adult; and establishing that parental consent to an adoption is not required if the prospective adoptee is an adult.

  

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Engrossed 03/14/2024

Introduced 01/09/2024

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History

Referred Judicial Proceedings

03/18/2024

Hearing 3/26 At 1:00 P.m.

03/18/2024

Third Reading Passed (135-0)

03/15/2024

Favorable Report By Judiciary

03/14/2024

Favorable Adopted Second Reading Passed

03/14/2024

First Reading Judiciary

01/10/2024

Hearing 1/25 At 1:00 P.m.

01/10/2024

Pre-filed

10/03/2023