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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-3B-02" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="3B" subtitle_name="Independent Adoption">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This subtitle applies only to an adoption that is arranged other than by a child placement agency.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as expressly provided in this subtitle, it does not affect an adoption:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for which a court entered an order on or before December 31, 2005; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>pending on January 1, 2006.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
