(a) The Court may, upon petition, terminate all rights of a parent or parents in a child in:
(1) proceedings under paragraph (a)(3) of 45.0115 by which the Court has determined the child to be neglected by one or both parents or to be dependent; or
(2) proceedings under paragraph (a)(5) of 45.0115 by which a parent or parents jointly or either of them severally voluntarily relinquish all the parental rights which they or each of them may have in a child, natural or adopted.
(b) No parent may relinquish his parental rights in a child other than in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
History:1980, PL 16-71 § 1.