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Effect of decree of termination - 23 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 2521

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                               SUBCHAPTER C
                          DECREE OF TERMINATION

     Sec.
     2521.  Effect of decree of termination.
     § 2521.  Effect of decree of termination.
        (a)  Adoption proceeding rights extinguished.--A decree
     terminating all rights of a parent or a decree terminating all
     rights and duties of a parent entered by a court of competent
     jurisdiction shall extinguish the power or the right of the
     parent to object to or receive notice of adoption proceedings.
        (b)  Award of custody.--The decree shall award custody of the
     child to the agency or the person consenting to accept custody
     under section 2501 (relating to relinquishment to agency) or
     section 2502 (relating to relinquishment to adult intending to
     adopt child) or the petitioner in the case of a proceeding under
     section 2512 (relating to petition for involuntary termination).
        (c)  Authority of agency or person receiving custody.--An
     agency or person receiving custody of a child shall stand in
     loco parentis to the child and in such capacity shall have the
     authority, inter alia, to consent to marriage, to enlistment in
     the armed forces and to major medical, psychiatric and surgical
     treatment and to exercise such other authority concerning the
     child as a natural parent could exercise.

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