![]() The rights of both the surrendering and non-surrendering parent are addressed. Those procedures include publishing a notice of a safely surrendered infant within 14 days of receiving the safely surrendered infant and identifying, locating, and contacting a known non-surrendering parent and placing the infant with the non-surrendering parent when there is no cause to suspect the infant is an abused, neglected, or dependent juvenile based on circumstances created by the non-surrendering parent. ![]() A county department of social services (DSS) no longer treats a safely surrendered infant as a dependent juvenile but instead follows the new procedures set forth in the new Article 5A. The identity of a surrendering parent must be kept confidential unless a statutory exception applies. 7B-101, adds to the defined terms “non-surrendering parent,” “safely surrendered infant,” and “surrendering parent” and amends the definition of “neglected juvenile” to explicitly state a juvenile is not abandoned when the juvenile is a safely surrendered infant. These are the same professionals in the previous version however, the previous version allowed any person to accept a safely surrendered infant, and that is no longer authorized under the new law. ![]() Only designated professionals may accept a safely surrendered infant. Under the new infant safe surrender law, infants who are reasonably believed to be no more than 30 days of age may be safely surrendered by a parent previously the age limit was no more than 7 days of age. 7B-501 (the previous infant safe surrender law) and other corresponding statutes. Chapter 7B (the Juvenile Code) that enacts G.S. ![]() 2023-14, Section 6.2 significantly amends North Carolina’s infant safe surrender law for all infants who are safely surrendered on or after October 1, 2023. Some session laws focus on specific statutory changes involving an individual juvenile or family other session laws make changes to state systems. As the 2023 Legislative Session continues, many session laws that amend child welfare statutes, including abuse, neglect, dependency termination of parental rights (TPR) adoption of a minor and foster care licensing became effective on various dates. ![]()
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