VETOES

AN ACT concerning

Family Law - Petitions for Adoption or Guardianship -
Procedure - Notice

FOR the purpose of providing that, if a petition for guardianship
is filed after a juvenile proceeding which results in
certain adjudications, a petitioner shall give certain
notice to the attorney who represented a natural parent in
the juvenile proceeding; providing that, if a person is
notified of the filing of a petition for adoption or a
petition for guardianship and fails to file a notice of
objection within a certain period of time, the court shall
consider the person to have consented to the adoption or
guardianship and treat the petition in a certain manner; and
generally relating to procedures involving notice of
petitions for adoption or guardianship.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article - Family Law

Section 5-322

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1984 Volume and 1986 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Family Law

5-322.

(a) (1) (I) Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a
petitioner shall give to each person whose consent is required
notice of the filing of a petition for adoption or a petition for
guardianship.

(II) IN ADDITION TO THE NOTICE OF FILING
REQUIRED UNDER ITEM (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH, IF A PETITION FOR
GUARDIANSHIP IS FILED AFTER A JUVENILE PROCEEDING IN WHICH THE
CHILD HAS BEEN ADJUDICATED TO BE A CHILD IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE, A
NEGLECTED CHILD, OR AN ABUSED CHILD, A PETITIONER SHALL GIVE
NOTICE OF THE FILING OF THE PETITION OF FOR GUARDIANSHIP TO THE
ATTORNEY WHO REPRESENTED A NATURAL PARENT IN THE JUVENILE
PROCEEDING.

(2) A person whose consent is filed with the petition
need not be given notice if the consent includes a waiver of the
right to notice of the filing of the petition.                             

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