78B-6-103. Definitions.
As used in this part:
(1) "Adoptee" means a person who has been legally adopted.
(2) "Adoption" means the judicial act which creates the relationship of parent and child
where it did not previously exist and which permanently deprives a birth parent of parental rights.
(3) "Adoption service provider" means a:
(a) child-placing agency; or
(b) licensed counselor who has at least one year of experience providing professional
social work services to:
(i) adoptive parents; or
(ii) birth parents.
(4) "Adult" means a person who is 18 years of age or older.
(5) "Adult adoptee" means an adoptee who is 18 years of age or older.
(6) "Adult sibling" means a brother or sister of the adoptee, who is 18 years of age or
older and whose birth mother or father is the same as that of the adoptee.
(7) "Birth parent" means a biological mother, a person whose paternity of a child is
established, or an alleged father, who has been identified as the father of a child by the child's
birth mother, and who has not denied paternity.
(8) "Bureau" means the Bureau of Vital Statistics within the Department of Health
operating under Title 26, Chapter 2, Utah Vital Statistics Act.
(9) "Child-placing agency" means an agency licensed to place children for adoption
under Title 62A, Chapter 4a, Part 6, Child Placing.
(10) "Cohabiting" means residing with another person and being involved in a sexual
relationship with that person.
(11) "Division" means the Division of Child and Family Services, within the Department
of Human Services, created in Section 62A-4a-103.
(12) "Extra-jurisdictional child-placing agency" means an agency licensed to place
children for adoption by a district, territory, or state of the United States, other than Utah.
(13) "Genetic and social history" means a comprehensive report, when obtainable, on an
adoptee's birth parents, aunts, uncles, and grandparents, which contains the following
information:
(a) medical history;
(b) health status;
(c) cause of and age at death;
(d) height, weight, and eye and hair color;
(e) ethnic origins;
(f) where appropriate, levels of education and professional achievement; and
(g) religion, if any.
(14) "Health history" means a comprehensive report of the adoptee's health status at the
time of placement for adoption, and medical history, including neonatal, psychological,
physiological, and medical care history.
(15) "Identifying information" means the name and address of a birth parent or adult
adoptee, or other specific information which by itself or in reasonable conjunction with other
information may be used to identify that person.
(16) "Licensed counselor" means a person who is licensed by the state, or another state,
district, or territory of the United States as a:
(a) certified social worker;
(b) clinical social worker;
(c) psychologist;
(d) marriage and family therapist;
(e) professional counselor; or
(f) an equivalent licensed professional of another state, district, or territory of the United
States.
(17) "Parent," for purposes of Section 78B-6-119, means any person described in
Subsections 78B-6-120(1)(b) through (f) from whom consent for adoption or relinquishment for
adoption is required under Sections 78B-6-120 through 78B-6-122.
(18) "Unmarried biological father" means a person who:
(a) is the biological father of a child; and
(b) was not married to the biological mother of the child described in Subsection (18)(a)
at the time of the child's:
(i) conception; or
(ii) birth.
Amended by Chapter 159, 2009 General Session
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