§ 5-3A-18. Authority to grant guardianship

   (a) Consent or best interests. -- A court may grant a guardianship of a child only if:

   (1) each of the child's living parents consents:

      (i) in writing; or

      (ii) by failure to timely file notice of objection after being served with a show cause order in accordance with this subtitle;

   (2) an administrative, executive, or judicial body of a state or other jurisdiction has granted a governmental unit or person other than a parent the power to consent to adoption, and the governmental unit or person consents; or

   (3) parental rights have been terminated in compliance with the laws of a state or other jurisdiction, as described in § 5-3A-05 of this subtitle.

(b) Conditional consent. -- A governmental unit or person:

   (1) may condition consent or acquiescence on adoption into a specific family that a child placement agency has approved for the placement; but

   (2) may not condition consent or acquiescence on any factor other than placement into a specific family.

HISTORY: 2005, ch. 464, § 3; 2006, ch. 365, § 2.