New Jersey's General Adoption Statutes
New Jersey
Agency or Person Gathering Information
or Preparing Report Statute: § 9:3-41.1 Child
placement agency
Contents of Report About Person to be
Adopted Statute: § 9:3-41.1
- • Developmental and medical history
- • Personality and temperament
Contents of Report About Birth Parents
Statute: § 9:3-41.1
- • Medical history, including hereditary
conditions
- • Drugs and medications taken during pregnancy
- • Any known factor that may influence the current
or future health of the adopted person
Contents of Report About Adoptive
Parents Statute: § 9:3-54.2
- • Suitability
- • Criminal background check
- • History of child abuse
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