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TITLE 26HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 749MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR CHILD-PLACING AGENCIES
SUBCHAPTER RADOPTION SERVICES: BIRTH PARENTS
DIVISION 2TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS
RULE §749.3523What specific information must I obtain from birth parents that voluntarily relinquish their parental rights?

A parent who signs an affidavit of voluntary relinquishment of parental rights regarding a biological child must also prepare a medical history report form that we issue as required by §161.1031 of the Texas Family Code. If the child is:

  (1) In the managing conservatorship of Child Protective Services, DFPS must maintain the form and make it available to persons with whom the child is placed; and

  (2) Placed for private adoption through a licensed child-placing agency, that agency must maintain the form.

Source Note: The provisions of this §749.3523 adopted to be effective January 1, 2007, 31 TexReg 7469; transferred effective March 9, 2018, as published in the Texas Register February 16, 2018, 43 TexReg 909

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