Michigan's General Adoption Statutes

Michigan

1. • Family Independence Agency
2. • Child placement agency
3. • Employee or agent of the court

1. • Date and place of birth
2. • Health and genetic history
3. • Prenatal care; medical condition at birth
4. • Medical, psychological, and dental information
5. • Any abuse or neglect suffered by the child
6. • Records of immunizations and health care
7. • Education records
8. • Physical description and family origin

1. • Medical, social, and genetic information
2. • Hereditary disease disposition
3. • Health at birth
4. • Medical, psychological, and dental information
5. • Drugs taken by mother during pregnancy
6. • Racial, ethnic, and religious background
7. • Achievements, e.g., educational

1. • Emotional ties to the adoptive child
2. • Capacity for love, affection, and guidance
3. • Ability to provide education
4. • Ability to foster the religion, racial identity, and culture of the child
5. • Capacity to provide food, clothing, permanence, and medical care
6. • Moral fitness
7. • Mental and physical health

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