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Louisiana Adoption Laws, Page 7

Infant Safe Haven Laws

Statute: Ch. Code art. 1150

Statute: Ch. Code art. 1150

Statute: Ch. Code art. 1150

Statute: Ch. Code art. 1152

Provide a card to the parent that contains information on how to contact the department should the parent later have questions about the relinquishment or wish to disclose medical and genetic information
Provide information regarding counseling and reclaiming parental rights
Notify the department immediately

Statute: Ch. Code art. 1152

Yes

Statute: Ch. Code art. 1151

Relinquishment in accordance with this law is not a criminal act of neglect, abandonment, cruelty, or crime against the child.

Statute: Ch. Code art. 1154; 1156; 1158

The department shall take physical custody of the child within 12 hours of the child’s discharge from the hospital.
A parent who has relinquished the child may file to reclaim parental rights within 30 days after relinquishment.
If the relinquishing parent has not made a timely claim to the child, and no timely claim has been made by a nonrelinquishing father, a petition for termination of parental rights will be filed within 45 days of relinquishment.
No action to annul a judgment of termination of parental rights can be brought 90 days after the judgment or a decree for adoption has been entered, whichever is earlier.

Credits: Child Welfare Information Gateway (http://www.childwelfare.gov)

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