Current with changes from the 2024 3rd Extraordinary Session effective on or before 1/1/2025
Section 1281.4 - Types of adoptionA. This Title sets forth the exclusive procedures for intercountry adoption of foreign orphans in Louisiana. There are two types of intercountry adoptions of foreign orphans in Louisiana:(1) Adoption or recognition of a foreign decree of adoption of a foreign orphan from a country outside the United States that is not a party to the Hague Adoption Convention.(2) Adoption or recognition of a foreign decree of adoption of a convention adoptee from a country outside the United States that is a party to the Hague Adoption Convention.B. The procedures governing each type of adoption are set forth in the following Articles.Acts 1999, No. 1268, §1; Acts 2013, No. 86, §1.Amended by Acts 2013, No. 86,s. 1, eff. 8/1/2013.