(b) When the adoptee is unrelated to the petitioner, the court shall appoint an attorney who is not the attorney for the adoptive parents to represent a minor indigent biological parent at every stage of the proceedings unless the minor biological parent refuses representation or the court determines that representation is unnecessary.

Sec. D-5. 18-A MRSA §9-201, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 694, Pt. C, §7 and affected by Pt. E, §2, is amended to read:

§9-201. Establishment of parentage

(a) When the biological mother of a child born out of wedlock wishes to consent to the adoption of the child or to execute a surrender and release for the purpose of adoption of the child and the a putative father parent has not consented to the adoption of the child or joined in a surrender and release for the purpose of adoption of the child or waived his the right to notice, the biological mother must file an affidavit of paternity parentage with the judge of probate so that the judge may determine how to give notice of the proceedings to the any putative father parent of the child.

(b) If the judge finds from the affidavit of the biological mother that the a putative father's parent's whereabouts are known, the judge shall order that notice of the mother's intent to consent to adoption or to execute a surrender and release, or the mother's actual consent or surrender and release, for the purpose of adoption of the child, be served upon the putative father parent of the child. If the judge finds that the putative father's parent's whereabouts are unknown, then the court shall order notice by publication in accordance with the Maine Rules of Probate Procedure. If the biological mother does not know or refuses to tell the court who the biological father any putative parent is, the court may order publication in accordance with the Maine Rules of Probate Procedure in a newspaper of general circulation in the area where the petition is filed, where the biological mother became pregnant or where the putative father parent is most likely to be located. The notice must specify the names of the biological mother and the child.

(c) A putative father or a legal father who is not the biological father parent may waive his the right to notice in a document acknowledged before a notary public or a judge of probate. The notary public may not be an attorney who represents either the mother or any person who is likely to become the legal guardian, custodian or parent of the child.