Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 07 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Subtitle 02 - SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 07.02.13 - Post Adoption Reunion Services
Section 07.02.13.01 - Purpose
Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 6, March 22, 2024
The purpose of this chapter is to:
A. Allow adult adoptees and eligible birth family members to:
B. Allow adult adoptees and birth parents to file disclosure vetoes to protect their confidentiality;
C. Allow a local department to contact a sibling of a minor in out-of-home placement in order to develop a placement resource or facilitate a family connection, if the sibling was adopted through a local department; and
D. Allow a director of a local department or designee to contact relatives of a minor in out-of-home placement who was adopted through a local department for the purposes of developing a placement resource or to facilitate a family connection if the local department has determined that reunification with the minor's adoptive parent is not in the minor's best interest.