History
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws produced two earlier versions of the Uniform Adoption Act, in 1953 and 1969. The 1994 Act is a complete revision of these previous versions. The 1994 version of the Uniform Adoption Act was drafted across five years, beginning in 1989.
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