LD 1526
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LR 134
Item 1

 
(1) The waiver of notice must indicate that the putative
father or legal father parent understands that the waiver of
notice operates as a consent to adoption or a surrender and
release for the purposes of adoption for any adoption of the
child, and that by signing the waiver of notice the putative
father or legal father parent voluntarily gives up any rights
to the named child.

 
(2) The waiver of notice may state that the putative father
or legal father parent neither admits nor denies paternity
parentage.

 
(3) The legal father shall attach to the waiver of notice
an affidavit stating that, although he is the legal father,
he is not the biological father.

 
(d) If, after notice, the a putative father parent of the
child wishes to establish parental rights to the child, he the
putative parent must, within 20 days after notice has been given
or within a longer period of time as ordered by the judge,
petition the judge of probate to establish the putative parent's
parentage and to grant to him the putative parent parental
rights. The petition must include an allegation that the
putative father parent is in fact the biological father a parent
of the child.

 
(e) Upon receipt of a petition under subsection (d), the
judge shall fix a date for a hearing to determine the putative
father's parent's parental rights to the child.

 
(f) The court shall appoint an attorney who is not the
attorney for the putative father parent, the biological mother or
the potential transferee agency or a potential adoptive parent to
represent the child and to protect the child's interests.

 
(g) Notice of the hearing must be given to the putative
father parent, the biological mother, the attorney for the child
and any other parties the judge determines appropriate. Notice
need not be given to a putative father parent or to a legal
father who is not the biological father and parent who has waived
his the right to notice as provided in subsection (c).

 
(h) Upon order of the court, the department or licensed
child-placing agency shall furnish studies and reports relevant
to the proceedings.

 
(i) If, after a hearing, the judge finds that the putative
father parent is the biological father a parent, that he the
putative parent is willing and able to protect the child from


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