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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-3A-01" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="3A" subtitle_name="Private Agency Guardianship and Adoption">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Child” means an individual who is the subject of a guardianship or adoption petition under this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Guardianship” means an award, under this subtitle, of any power of a guardian.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Identifying information” means information that reveals the identity or location of an individual.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Parent” means an individual who, at the time a petition for guardianship or adoption is filed under this subtitle or at any time before a court terminates the individual’s parental rights:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>meets a criterion in § 5-3A-06(a) of this subtitle; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is the mother.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Parent” does not include an individual whom a court has adjudicated not to be a father or mother.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
