Who may be adopted
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. A-27789 (1984)
Most recently applied in In Re the Appeal in Maricopa County Juvenile Action No. A-27789 (March 1984)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A. Except as provided in title 14, chapter 8 and subsection B of this section, only a child, or a foreign-born person who is twenty-one years of age or less and who is not an illegal alien, who is present within this state at the time the petition for adoption is filed may be adopted.
B. A dependent child is not required to be present in this state at the time the petition for adoption is filed if the criteria prescribed in section 8-103, subsection B are met.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.