Consent to adoption required before placement in adoptive home; exception.

NRS

127.043

Consent to adoption required before placement in adoptive home; exception.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a child must not be placed in an adoptive home until a valid release for or consent to adoption is executed by the parent who gave birth to the child as provided by NRS 127.070 .

2. The provisions of this section do not apply if one or more of the existing legal parents is a petitioner or the petitioner is related to the child within the third degree of consanguinity.

(Added to NRS by 1989, 530 ; A 2021, 3405 )