Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 19. DOMESTIC RELATIONS · Chapter 8. ADOPTION · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

19-8-28. Adoption of an orphan.

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When a child is an orphan, the petitioner shall not be required to have a guardian appointed for such child in order for a guardian to execute a surrender of rights. Such child shall be adoptable without a surrender of rights.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Code 1981, § 19-8-28, enacted by Ga. L. 2018, p. 19, § 1-1/HB 159.

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