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Maine law permits single LGBT individuals and same-sex couples, whether married or unmarried, to petition to adopt. [12] Lesbian couples have access to in vitro fertilization. State law recognizes the non-genetic, non-gestational mother as a legal parent to a child born via donor insemination, irrespective of the marital status of the parents. [13]
Mississippi was the only U.S. state to not have legal joint adoption rights for LGBT couples; the only other jurisdictions under U.S. sovereignty where this is the case are American Samoa and some Native American tribal nations. [75] Mississippi passed a state law in 2000 which explicitly prohibited same-sex couples from joint adoption.
It is a bill that would address federal adoption incentives and would amend the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to demonstrate that the state agency has developed policies and procedures for identifying, documenting in agency records, and determining appropriate services with respect ...
The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, also known as the MWTRC, [1] was a commission looking at events relating to Wabanaki children and families from 1978, when the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was passed, until now. The Commission was officially established on February 12, 2012 and issued its final ...
Maine was the eighth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. [a] The 2012 referendum was a reversal of action on a similar bill three years earlier. On May 6, 2009, a bill to allow same-sex marriage in Maine was signed into law by Governor John Baldacci following legislative approval. [4]
By improving the State Department’s inter-country adoption policies, we can help children in need gain access to safe and loving homes from the one to two million Americans looking to build ...
The Uniform Adoption Act (1994) is a model law (uniform act) proposed by the U.S. Uniform Law Commission. It attempts to "be a comprehensive and uniform state adoption code that: is consistent with relevant federal constitutional and statutory law; delineates the legal requirements and consequences of different kinds of adoption
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine Gov. Janet Mills called Tuesday for strengthening the state's yellow flag law, boosting background checks for private sales of weapons and bolstering mental crisis care ...