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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-3A-24" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="3A" subtitle_name="Private Agency Guardianship and Adoption">
  <text>If a petitioner becomes aware, after a court rules on a petition, that a condition of consent under § 5-3A-18(b) of this subtitle cannot be fulfilled, the petitioner promptly shall:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>file notice with the court;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>give notice to all of the other parties;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>if consent was received from a governmental unit or person who is not a party, give notice to that unit or person; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <level label="i">
      <text>if the unit or person enters into a new consent, file the consent with the court;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>if the unit or person fails to enter into a new consent, ask the court to set aside the guardianship order; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>if the unit or person cannot be located after exhaustion of the service requirements under § 5-3A-15 of this subtitle, ask the court to determine whether it is in the child’s best interests to continue the guardianship despite the inability to fulfill the condition.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
