Alabama
✅ REVOCATION PERIOD: 5 BUSINESS DAYS ✅
In Alabama, you have 5 business days after signing consent to change your mind for any reason. This is a significant protection for birth parents.
During this 5-business-day period, you can simply file a written statement revoking your consent and requesting the return of your child. You do not need to prove fraud or duress.
Your child must be immediately returned to you if you revoke within this 5-business-day period.
Alaska
✅ REVOCATION PERIOD: 10 DAYS ✅
In Alaska, you have 10 days after signing consent to change your mind for any reason. This is a significant protection for birth parents.
During this 10 day period, you can simply file a written statement revoking your consent and requesting the return of your child. You do not need to prove fraud or duress.
Your child must be immediately returned to you if you revoke within this 10 day period.
Arizona
🚫 NO REVOCATION PERIOD 🚫
In Arizona, once you sign a consent to adopt, that consent is considered final and irrevocable—unless it was obtained by fraud, duress, or undue influence. There is no state-mandated period during which you can revoke your consent.
This means that even if circumstances change or you later feel that you were pressured or misinformed at the time of your signed consent, the decision cannot be undone. In the case of fraud, duress, or undue influence, you'd have an exceptionally high legal hurdle to clear as courts overwhelmingly favor private infant adoptions over your rights.
Arkansas
✅ REVOCATION PERIOD: 10 DAYS (or 5 if waiver elected) ✅
In Arkansas, you have 10 calendar days after signing your consent to adopt (or 5 days if you elect to waive the full period) to change your mind for any reason.
During this period, you can file an affidavit with the probate division clerk of the designated circuit court to revoke your consent. If the period ends on a weekend or legal holiday, you may file on the next working day.
If you revoke your consent before a decree of adoption is entered, the adoption process is halted, and custody will revert, pending any necessary court orders for the child’s safety.
California
✅ REVOCATION PERIOD: 30 DAYS FOR ANY REASON ✅
In California, you have 30 days after signing consent to change your mind for any reason. This is a significant protection for birth parents.
During this 30-day period, you can simply file a written statement revoking your consent and requesting the return of your child. You do not need to prove fraud or duress.
Your child must be immediately returned to you if you revoke within this 30-day period.
Colorado
🚫 REVOCATION PERIOD: EXTREMELY LIMITED 🚫
In Colorado, once you sign a relinquishment order, it is final and irrevocable, unless you can prove fraud or duress in court.
You have 91 days from the date of signing to challenge your consent, but you must provide clear and convincing evidence that you were coerced or misled. Courts overwhelmingly favor private infant adoptions, making this an exceptionally high legal hurdle.
Connecticut
🚫 NO REVOCATION PERIOD 🚫
In Connecticut, once you sign the Consent to Adoption—the legal document through which you permanently terminate your parental rights—it is final and irrevocable. There is no state-mandated period during which you can revoke your consent.
This means that even if circumstances change or you later feel that you were pressured or misinformed at the time of signing, the decision cannot be undone.
District of Columbia
🚫 NO REVOCATION PERIOD 🚫
In Connecticut, once you sign the Consent to Adoption—the legal document through which you permanently terminate your parental rights—it is final and irrevocable. There is no state-mandated period during which you can revoke your consent.
This means that even if circumstances change or you later feel that you were pressured or misinformed at the time of signing, the decision cannot be undone.
Florida
🚫 NO REVOCATION PERIOD 🚫
In Connecticut, once you sign the Consent to Adoption—the legal document through which you permanently terminate your parental rights—it is final and irrevocable. There is no state-mandated period during which you can revoke your consent.
This means that even if circumstances change or you later feel that you were pressured or misinformed at the time of signing, the decision cannot be undone.