CHAPTER 79
HB 620 - FINAL VERSION
2001 SESSION
05/10
HOUSE BILL 620
COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law
This bill clarifies that, although nothing in the adoption law is intended to encourage or prohibit arrangements between adoptive and birth parents, such arrangements are unenforceable.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0873
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to arrangements between birth parents and adoptive parents.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
79:1 New Section; Adoption; Arrangements Between Adoptive and Birth Parents. Amend RSA 170-B by inserting after section 10-a the following new section:
170-B:10-b Arrangements Between Adoptive and Birth Parents. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as encouraging, discouraging, or prohibiting arrangements or understandings reached between the adoptive parents, the birth parents, or the licensed child-placing agency with respect to the post-relinquishment or post-consent exchange of identifying or non-identifying information, communication, or contact; provided that no such arrangement or understanding shall be binding or enforceable at law or in equity.
79:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
(Approved: June 19, 2001)
(Effective Date: August 18, 2001)