NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 714

HOUSE BILL 1071

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 48-6 RELATIVE TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THE CONSENT OF A FATHER TO AN ADOPTION IS NOT NECESSARY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 486(a) is hereby amended to read as follows:

"(a)       In case of a child born out of wedlock when the paternity of said child has not been judicially established or acknowledged by affidavit, or when said child has not been legitimated prior to the time of the signing of the consent, the written consent of the mother alone shall be sufficient under this Chapter and the father need not be made a party to the proceeding. The judicial establishment of paternity, the acknowledgement of paternity by affidavit, or the legitimation of the child by any means subsequent to the signing of such consent of the mother shall not make such consent invalid nor adversely affect the sufficiency of such consent nor make necessary the consent of the father or his joinder as a party to the proceeding. The judicial establishment of paternity or the acknowledgment of paternity by affidavit prior to the signing of the consent by the mother, if such consent was signed prior to January 1, 1976, shall not make necessary the consent of the father or his joinder as a party to the proceeding."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1975.