Specific consent to adoption or relinquishment: General requirements for execution

1. A specific consent to adoption or relinquishment executed in this State, or executed outside this State for use in this State, is not valid unless it: (a) Identifies the child to be adopted by name, if any, sex and date of birth. (b) Is in writing. (c) Is acknowledged by the person signing the specific consent to adoption or relinquishment before a judge or a clerk of the court having a seal, a notary public or a justice of the peace. (d) Contains, at the time of execution: (1) For a specific consent to adoption, the name of the person or persons to whom specific consent to adopt the child is given; or (2) For a relinquishment, the name of the agency which provides child welfare services. (e) Indicates whether the person giving the consent has reason to know that the child is an Indian child and, if the person does not have reason to know that the child is an Indian child, includes a statement that the person will inform the court immediately if, before the entry of the order of adoption pursuant to NRS 127B.390, the person receives information that provides reason to know that the child is an Indian child. (f) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, is attested by at least two competent, disinterested witnesses who subscribe their names to the specific consent to adoption or relinquishment in the presence of or by remote appearance with the signing parent. One of the witnesses must be: (1) If the signing is occurring in this State, an employee of the agency which provides child welfare services; or (2) If the signing is occurring in another state, a person authorized in that state to witness or accept a specific consent to adoption or relinquishment. 2. A social worker employed by an agency which provides child welfare services may remotely witness the execution of a specific consent to adoption or relinquishment by a parent of the child to be adopted who resides in another state.