CHC 1281.3 - Definitions - Louisiana Statutes

Art. 1281.3. Definitions

As used in this Title:

(1) "Agency" or "child placing agency" includes the Department of Children and Family Services, the corresponding department of any other state, and those private agencies and institutions licensed for the placement of children for adoption by the Department of Children and Family Services or by the corresponding department of any other state.

(2) "Birth certificate" means the child's official birth certificate and, if the certificate is not in English, a certified translation of the certificate.

(3) "Child" means a person under seventeen years of age and not emancipated by marriage.

(4) "Department" means the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services.

(5) "Foreign orphan" means a foreign-born child who is under the age of sixteen at the time a visa petition is filed on his behalf and: whose parents have both died or disappeared, or abandoned or deserted him, or who has become separated or lost from both parents; whose sole surviving parent is incapable of providing for the child's care and has in writing irrevocably released the child for emigration and adoption; or who is a child born outside of marriage whose father acknowledges paternity and signs a relinquishment along with the mother.

Acts 1999, No. 1268, §1; Acts 2004, No. 26, §3.