Georgia § 19-8-25 - Effect of prior consent or surrender of rights.
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§ 19-8-25. Effect of prior consent or surrender of rights.
A written consent or surrender of rights, executed on or before August 31, 2018, shall, for purposes of an adoption proceeding commenced on or after September 1, 2018, be deemed to satisfy the surrender requirements of this article and it shall not be necessary to have any parent or guardian execute the documents required by Code Section 19-8-4, 19-8-5, 19-8-6, or 19-8-7; however, all other applicable provisions of this article shall be complied with. It is the legislative intent of this subsection to clarify and not to change the applicability of certain previously existing provisions of this article to adoption proceedings pending on August 31, 2018. Any decree of adoption issued in an adoption proceeding in which the adoption petition was filed in a superior court of this state prior to September 1, 2018, shall be valid if the adoption conformed to the requirements of this article either as they existed on August 31, 2018, or on September 1, 2018, and each such adoption decree is hereby ratified and confirmed. (Code 1981, § 19-8-25 , enacted by Ga. L. 1990, p. 1572, § 5; Ga. L. 1991, p. 1640, § 12; Ga. L. 2018, p. 19, § 1-1/HB 159.) The 2018 amendment, effective September 1, 2018, in this Code section, substituted "August 31, 2018" for "June 30, 1990" and substituted "September 1, 2018" for "July 1, 1990" throughout; substituted "article" for "chapter" in subsection (a) and twice in subsection (b); and, in subsection (a), inserted "of rights" near the beginning, and substituted "article shall" for "chapter must" near the end.
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