Indiana Code § 31-14-20-2

Failure to register; effect on parental rights in adoption proceedings
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Sec. 2. (a) A man who fails to register with the putative father registry as required by section 1 of this chapter waives the right to notice of an adoption of a child who is the subject of the paternity action: (1) if the adoption is filed before the man establishes paternity; and (2) in which the child's mother does not disclose to an attorney or agency arranging the adoption the name or address of the child's putative father.       (b) A waiver under this section constitutes the man's irrevocably implied consent to the child's adoption. [Pre-1997 Recodification Citation: 31-6-6.1-2(e).]   IC 31-14-21 Chapter 21. Requirements When Adoption Pending for Child Who Is Subject of Paternity Action               31-14-21-1 Applicability of IC 31-14-21-1 through IC 31-14-21-7             31-14-21-2 Nonapplicability of IC 31-14-21-1 through IC 31-14-21-7             31-14-21-3 Putative father's notice of paternity action; notice to attorney or agency in adoption proceedings             31-14-21-4 Putative father's notice of paternity action; notice to clerk having jurisdiction over adoption             31-14-21-5 Content of notice             31-14-21-6 Failure to provide notice; intervention by adoptive parents             31-14-21-7 Failure to provide notice; vacation of paternity determination; intervention by adoptive parents             31-14-21-8 Intervention by adoptive parents; purposes of intervention; objections to errors in paternity proceedings             31-14-21-9 Duty of court with jurisdiction to establish paternity within period prescribed by chapter             31-14-21-9.1 Duty of court to order blood or genetic testing             31-14-21-9.2 Final hearing to determine paternity and ruling             31-14-21-10 Repealed             31-14-21-11 Repealed             31-14-21-12 Repealed             31-14-21-13 Stay proceedings in paternity action

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