Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 07 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Subtitle 05 - SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION-PRIVATE CHILD PLACEMENT AGENCIES
Chapter 07.05.03 - Private Adoption
Section 07.05.03.01 - Purpose
Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 6, March 22, 2024
The purpose of private adoption services is to:
A. Effect a permanent plan through private legal adoption as quickly as possible for a child in out-of-home placement who cannot, or should not, be reunited with the child's birth parents;
B. Protect children from unnecessary separation from birth parents;
C. Provide the child with an adoptive setting which will ensure the child's safety and well-being;
D. Assure adoption of a child by qualified individuals;
E. Protect the confidentiality of the adoption process;
F. Arrange, as appropriate, the exchange of identifying information among an adoptee, birth parents, and birth siblings who register their consent with the Registry;
G. Assure that a child adopted in a foreign country is protected in Maryland and that the foreign country's laws, customs, expectations, and requests are, as far as is legally and practically possible, honored in Maryland; and
H. Assure potential adoptive parents that the agency will:
