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House Journal: Page 1331: Tuesday, April 7, 1998

40   termination of parental rights has been accomplished
41   except in the following cases:
42     a.  No termination of parental rights is required
43   if the person to be adopted is an adult.
44     b.  If the stepparent of the child to be adopted is
45   the adoption petitioner, the parent-child relationship
46   between the child and the parent who is not the spouse
47   of the petitioner may be terminated as part of the
48   adoption proceeding by the filing of that parent's
49   consent to the adoption.
50     For the purposes of this subsection, a consent to

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 1   adopt recognized by the juvenile courts or courts of
 2   another jurisdiction in the United States and obtained
 3   from a resident of that jurisdiction shall be accepted
 4   in this state in lieu of a termination of parental
 5   rights proceeding.
 6     Any adoption proceeding pending on or completed
 7   prior to July 1, 1978, is hereby legalized and
 8   validated to the extent that it is consistent with
 9   this subsection.
10     3.  If upon filing of the adoption petition or at
11   any later time in the adoption action the juvenile
12   court or court finds that in the interest of
13   substantial justice the adoption action should be
14   conducted in another juvenile court or court, it may
15   transfer, stay, or dismiss the adoption action on any
16   conditions that are just.
17     Sec. ___.  Section 600.4, subsection 3, paragraph
18   c, Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
19     c.  Is unable to petition with the other spouse
20   because of the prolonged and unexplained absence,
21   unavailability, or incapacity of the other spouse, or
22   because of an unreasonable withholding of joinder by
23   the other spouse, as determined by the juvenile court
24   or court under section 600.5, subsection 7.
25     Sec. ___.  Section 600.5, unnumbered paragraph 1,
26   Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:
27     An adoption petition shall be signed and verified
28   by the petitioner, shall be filed with the juvenile
29   court or court designated in section 600.3, and shall
30   state:
31     Sec. ___.  Section 600.5, subsection 7, Code 1997,
32   is amended to read as follows:
33     7.  A designation of the particular provision in
34   section 600.4 under which the petitioner is qualified
35   to adopt and, if under section 600.4, subsection 3,
36   paragraph "c", a request that the juvenile court or
37   court approve the petitioner's qualification to adopt.
38     Sec. ___.  Section 600.7, subsection 1, unnumbered
39   paragraph 1, Code 1997, is amended to read as follows:

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