{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s14942","title_num":"42","num":"§ 14942.","heading":"Documents of other Convention countries","status":null,"guid":"id7b8d660e-4aa7-11eb-94f5-9ff2c44f6f3c","source_credit":"(Pub. L. 106–279, title IV, § 402, Oct. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 841.)","seq_in_title":7241,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch143/schIV","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42","level":"title","num":"Title 42—","heading":"THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch143","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 143—","heading":"INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTIONS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/ch143/schIV","level":"subchapter","num":"SUBCHAPTER IV—","heading":"ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id8fb0e97d-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t42/s14942\"><num value=\"14942\">§ 14942.</num><heading> Documents of other Convention countries</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Documents originating in any other Convention country and related to a Convention adoption case shall require no authentication in order to be admissible in any Federal, State, or local court in the United States, unless a specific and supported claim is made that the documents are false, have been altered, or are otherwise unreliable.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id8fb0e97e-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\">(<ref href=\"/us/pl/106/279/tIV/s402\">Pub. L. 106–279, title IV, § 402</ref>, <date date=\"2000-10-06\">Oct. 6, 2000</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/114/841\">114 Stat. 841</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id8fb0e97f-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"effectiveDate\" id=\"id8fb0e980-86fb-11e9-b915-8b3e54686b9f\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Effective Date</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Section effective upon entry into force for the United States of the Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, pursuant to Article 46(2)(a) of the Convention, with transition rule, see section 505(a)(2), (b) of <ref href=\"/us/pl/106/279\">Pub. L. 106–279</ref>, set out as an Effective Dates; Transition Rule note under <ref href=\"/us/usc/t42/s14901\">section 14901 of this title</ref>.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-19","currency_date":"2019-05-31","congress":116,"law_num":19,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":174,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["25","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}