Reduced fees for adoption of child with special needs or petition relating to agreement for postadoptive contact.

NRS

19.034

Reduced fees for adoption of child with special needs or petition relating to agreement for postadoptive contact.

1. If the agency which provides child welfare services, or a child-placing agency licensed by the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to chapter 127 of NRS, consents to the adoption of a child with special needs pursuant to NRS 127.186 , the clerk of the court shall reduce the total filing fee to not more than $1 for filing the petition to adopt such a child.

2. If a natural parent or adoptive parent who has entered into an agreement that provides for postadoptive contact pursuant to NRS 127.187 files a petition pursuant to subsection 1 or 2 of NRS 127.1885 , the clerk of the court shall reduce the total filing fee to not more than $1 for filing the petition.

(Added to NRS by 2001, 684 ; A 2003, 15 ; 2015, 2563 ; 2017, 1990 )