Article
Adoption
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-101— Applicability of definitions
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-102— Abandonment defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-103— Adoptive parents, adoptive mother or adoptive father defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-104— Agency defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-105— Birth father defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-106— Birth mother defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-107— Birth parents defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-108— Consent defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-109— Determined father defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-110— Legal father defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-111— Marital child defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-112— Nonmarital child defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-113— Outsider father defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-114— Putative father defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-115— Relinquishment defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-116— Stepparent adoption defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-117— Unknown father defined
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-201— Persons who may petition for decree of adoption
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-301— Persons whose consent or relinquishment is required; exceptions
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-302— Timing and execution of consent or relinquishment
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-303— Content of consent or relinquishment
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-304— Consent or relinquishment by infants
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-305— Revocation of consent or relinquishment for adoption
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-306— Conduct presumptively constituting abandonment
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-401— Delivery of child for adoption; written recital of circumstances
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-501— Filing of petition for adoption
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-502— Petition and appendix
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-601— Who shall receive notice
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-602— How notice is to be served
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-603— Notice to an unknown father
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-701— Proceedings
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-702— Recordation of order; fees; disposition of records; names of adopting parents and persons previously entitled to parental rights not to be disclosed; disclosure of identifying and nonidentifying information; certificate for state registrar of vital statistics; birth certificate
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-703— Effect of order as to relations of parents and child and as to rights of inheritance; intestacy of adopted child
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-704— Finality of order; challenges to order of adoption
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-801— Adoption of adults
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-802— Contracts limiting or restraining adoptions
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-803
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-901— Recognition of foreign adoption decree
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-902— Filing of petition for recognition of foreign adoption decree
- W. Va. Code § 48-22-903— Proceedings for recognition of foreign adoption decree