Colorado § 19-3-603 - Notice - abandonment.
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§ 19-3-603. Notice - abandonment.
Before a termination of the parent-child legal relationship based on abandonment can be ordered, the petitioner shall file, only if the location of a parent remains unknown, an affidavit stating what efforts have been made to locate the parent or parents of the child subject to the motion for termination. Such affidavit shall be filed not later than ten days prior to the hearing.
Source: L. 87: Entire title R&RE, p. 788, § 1, effective October 1. L. 97: Entire section amended, p. 521, § 9, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section was contained in a title that was repealed and reenacted in 1987. Provisions of this section, as it existed in 1987, are similar to those contained in 19-11-104 as said section existed in 1986, the year prior to the repeal and reenactment of this title.
ANNOTATION
Annotator's note. The following annotations include cases decided under former provisions similar to this section.
Guardian ad litem may file the motion to terminate the parent-child legal relationship as guardian of the child's best interests even though the state is the exclusive party to bring a petition in dependency and neglect. People in Interest of M.N., 950 P.2d 674 (Colo. App. 1997).
Applied in People in Interest of K.C., 685 P.2d 1377 (Colo. App. 1984).
Source: official Colorado text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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