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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-325" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Guardianship to and Adoption Through Local Department">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An order for guardianship of an individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, § 4-414 of the Estates and Trusts Article, and § 2-123 of the Real Property Article, terminates a parent’s duties, obligations, and rights toward the individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>eliminates the need for a further consent by a parent to adoption of the individual;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>grants a local department guardianship with the right to consent to the individual’s adoption or other planned permanent living arrangement; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>terminates the individual’s CINA case.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Unless a juvenile court gives legal custody to another person, a child’s guardian under this subtitle has legal custody.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>Unless a juvenile court orders otherwise and subject to review by the juvenile court, a child’s guardian may make all decisions affecting the child’s education, health, and welfare, including consenting:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>to adoption of the child;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>to application by the child for a driver’s license;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>to enlistment by the child in the armed forces;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>to marriage of the child; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>subject to subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph, to medical, psychiatric, or surgical treatment.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A child’s guardian:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>may have the child admitted to an inpatient psychiatric facility in accordance with the standards for emergency commitment in § 10-617 of the Health - General Article for not more than 20 days;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>except as provided in item 1 of this subparagraph, may not place the child in an inpatient psychiatric facility without express authorization of the juvenile court.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>A child’s guardian may not withhold or withdraw a life-sustaining procedure without the prior authorization of a juvenile court.</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>In deciding whether to grant authorization, a juvenile court shall apply the factors set forth in § 13-711(b) of the Estates and Trusts Article.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A local department shall notify a juvenile court, a child’s attorney, and the attorney for each other party who has not waived the right to notice:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>within 2 business days after the child’s placement changes or the time required under § 5-326(b) of this subtitle, whichever is shorter;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>within 2 business days after the child is placed in a psychiatric facility; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>within 2 business days after the child is absent from a placement for more than a week.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A local department shall give a child’s attorney the child’s new address and telephone number within 2 business days after the address or telephone number changes.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
