NRS 127.057
Consent to adoption: Copy to be furnished to agency which provides child welfare services within 48 hours

  • recommendations
  • confidentiality of information
  • unlawful acts.

1.

Any person to whom a consent to adoption executed in this State or executed outside this State for use in this State is delivered shall, within 48 hours after receipt of the executed consent to adoption, furnish a true copy of the consent, together with a report of the permanent address of the person in whose favor the consent was executed to the agency which provides child welfare services.

2.

Any person recommending in his or her professional or occupational capacity, the placement of a child for adoption in this State shall immediately notify the agency which provides child welfare services of the impending adoption.

3.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.0115, all information received by the agency which provides child welfare services pursuant to the provisions of this section is confidential and must be protected from disclosure in the same manner that information is protected under NRS 432.035.

4.

Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Source: Section 127.057 — Consent to adoption: Copy to be furnished to agency which provides child welfare services within 48 hours; recommendations; confidentiality of information; unlawful acts., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-127.­html#NRS127Sec057.

127.010
Jurisdiction of district courts. 127.013
Transfer of proceedings to Indian tribe. 127.017
Extent to which court must give full faith and credit to judicial proceedings of Indian tribe. 127.018
Court order required if home state of child is Nevada 127.020
Adoption of minor children 127.030
Who may petition 127.040
Written consent to adoption or for relinquishment to authorized agency: Acknowledgment 127.043
Consent to adoption required before placement in adoptive home 127.045
Release for or consent to adoption and investigation required before appointment of guardian for child to be adopted 127.050
Agencies which may accept relinquishments and consent to adoption 127.051
Agency responsible for care of child and entitled to custody 127.052
Agency to determine whether child is Indian child 127.053
Consent to adoption: Requisites. 127.055
Consent to adoption: Attesting witnesses may make self-proving affidavits to be attached to consent. 127.057
Consent to adoption: Copy to be furnished to agency which provides child welfare services within 48 hours 127.058
Consent to adoption: Person to whom consent is given has legal custody of child until hearing on petition for adoption. 127.060
Adoption of two or more children. 127.070
Validity of releases for and consents to adoption. 127.080
Consent to specific adoption or relinquishment for adoption cannot be revoked or nullified 127.090
When consent unnecessary. 127.100
Entitlement of petitions, reports and orders. 127.110
When petition may be filed 127.120
Petition to be filed in duplicate 127.123
Notice of filing of petition to be provided legal custodian or guardian of child. 127.127
Affidavit setting forth fees, donations and expenses required to be filed 127.130
Confidentiality of reports 127.140
Confidentiality of hearings, files and records. 127.145
Attendance of prospective adoptive parents at hearing by telephone. 127.150
Order of adoption or return of child 127.152
Adopting parents to be provided with report which includes medical records and other information concerning child 127.155
Validation of certain orders and decrees. 127.157
Report of adoption, amendment or annulment of adoption to State Registrar. 127.160
Rights and duties of adopted child and adoptive parents. 127.165
When action to set aside adoption may be brought 127.171
Right to visitation of child by sibling and other relatives 127.180
Appeals from orders, judgments or decrees. 127.186
Adoption of child with special needs
Last Updated

Feb. 5, 2021

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