AN ACT relating to adoption.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to authorize posthumous adoption; provide that the Act may be cited as Braylon's Law.

Courts, Circuit Parental Rights Courts, Family Children and Minors Short Titles and Popular Names Domestic Relations

Introduced: January 9, 2025

Last action: March 15, 2025

Acts Ch. 16)

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This law creates a new legal process in Kentucky called posthumous adoption, which allows an adoption to be recognized or completed even after the death of the adopting parent. It adds this option to the state's existing adoption laws. This change may provide legal protections and family recognition for children whose adoption was in progress when a parent died. Who it may affect: children in the process of being adopted and prospective adoptive parents.

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