Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 42. ADOPTION

CHAPTER 3. REQUIREMENTS OF PARTIES IN ADOPTION

Part 2. Requirements of Prospective Adoptive Parents

Distribution Of Evaluation -- Retention -- Immunity For Evaluator

42-3-206. Distribution of evaluation -- retention -- immunity for evaluator. (1) The evaluator shall furnish a copy of the evaluation to a department, agency, or other person authorized to place a child for adoption and, upon payment by the person evaluated of the cost of the evaluation services, to the person evaluated.

(2) An evaluator shall retain the original of a completed or incomplete preplacement evaluation and a list of each source for each item of information in the evaluation. An evaluator who ceases to do business in Montana shall give the evaluator's records to the department for retention.

(3) An evaluator, except a department evaluator, who conducted an evaluation in good faith is not subject to civil liability for anything contained in the evaluation.

History: En. Sec. 88, Ch. 480, L. 1997.