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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-3A-18" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="3A" subtitle_name="Private Agency Guardianship and Adoption">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A court may grant a guardianship of a child only if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>each of the child’s living parents consents:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>in writing; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>by failure to timely file notice of objection after being served with a show–cause order in accordance with this subtitle;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an administrative, executive, or judicial body of a state or other jurisdiction has granted a governmental unit or person other than a parent the power to consent to adoption, and the governmental unit or person consents; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>parental rights have been terminated in compliance with the laws of a state or other jurisdiction, as described in § 5–3A–05 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A governmental unit or person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>may condition consent or acquiescence on adoption into a specific family that a child placement agency has approved for the placement; but</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>may not condition consent or acquiescence on any factor other than placement into a specific family.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
