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<section article="gfl" article_name="Family Law" number="5-4C-01" title_number="5" title_name="Children" subtitle_number="4C" subtitle_name="Mutual Consent Voluntary Adoption Registry">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Administration” means the Social Services Administration of the Department.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Adoptee” means an individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>who was adopted in this State; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>who was placed for adoption by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a child placement agency licensed in this State; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a local department.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Director” means the Director of the Administration.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Identifying information” means information that reveals the identity or location of an adoptee, the natural parents of an adoptee, or a natural sibling.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>Repealed.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Natural father” means a man who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>was married to the adoptee’s natural mother at the time of conception;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>was married to the adoptee’s natural mother at the time of the adoptee’s birth;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>was named as the father on the adoptee’s pre-adoption birth certificate, unless the man has signed a denial of paternity or his nonpaternity has been determined by a court;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>was identified by the natural mother as the father of the adoptee, unless the man has signed a denial of paternity or his nonpaternity has been determined by a court;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>has been adjudicated to be the father of the adoptee; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>has acknowledged himself orally or in writing to be the father of the adoptee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Natural sibling” means an individual who is at least 21 years old and shares 1 or both natural parents with an adoptee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Registry” means the Mutual Consent Voluntary Adoption Registry.</text>
  </level>
</section>
