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Miss. Code Ann. § 93-17-303

Registration of foreign adoptions

Laws, 2014, ch. 385, § 5; Laws, 2017, ch. 427, § 7, eff from and after July 1, 2017.

(1) A child who has automatically acquired United States citizenship following a foreign adoption and who possesses a Certificate of Citizenship in accordance with the Child Citizenship Act, Public Law 106-395, may be issued a Mississippi birth certificate upon compliance with this article and the requirements for adoptions under this chapter to the extent not superseded by this article.

(2) A parent shall not proceed under this article if the foreign adoption has been registered or otherwise finalized by a court of this or any other state.

(3) A parent who is eligible to obtain a decree of registration of a foreign adoption under this article may proceed pro se.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.