Utah

Who may adopt?
Adults who are legally married to each other.
A stepparent.
Any single adult.
Persons who are cohabiting but not legally married may not adopt.
The adoptive parent must be at least 10 years older than the adoptee.
In the case of a married couple, only one person needs to be 10 years older.
A married person may not adopt without the consent of his or her spouse.

Consent for adoption to be executed?
The birth mother may not execute consent until at least 24 hours after the child's birth.
The consent of any other person that may be required may be executed at any time, including prior to the birth of the child.

Revocation of consent?
Consent is effective when signed and cannot be revoked.
Case law suggests that consent may be revoked if induced by duress, undue influence, deception, or other grounds that would justify release from a contract.

Who may place a child for adoption?
A parent.
A licensed child-placing agency.

Advertising?
An attorney, physician, or other person may not:

Issue or cause to be issued to any person a card, sign, or device indicating that he is available to provide child-placing assistance
Cause, permit, or allow any sign or marking indicating that he is available to provide child-placing assistance, on or in any building or structure
Announce or cause, permit, or allow an announcement indicating that he is available to provide child-placing assistance to appear in any newspaper, magazine, directory, or on radio or television

Advertise by any other means that he is available to provide child-placing assistance

Facilitators?
No person, agency, corporation, association, or group children's home may engage in child placing, or solicit money or other assistance for child placing, without a valid license. When a child-placing agency's license is suspended or revoked, the care, control, or custody of any child who has been in the care, control, or custody of that agency shall be transferred to the division.
An attorney, physician, or other person may assist a parent in identifying or locating a person interested in adopting the parent's child, or in identifying or locating a child to be adopted. However, no payment, charge, fee, reimbursement of expense, or exchange of value of any kind may be made for that assistance.
Nothing in this part precludes payment of fees for medical, legal, or other lawful services rendered in connection with the care of a mother, delivery and care of a child, or lawful adoption proceedings; and no provision of this part abrogates the right of procedures for independent adoption as provided by law.

Putative Father's Registry?
No. The putative father is entitled to actual notice of a birth or adoption proceeding.
The putative father may initiate proceedings to establish paternity prior to the child's birth, the mother's execution of consent, or her relinquishment of the child to an agency.
The putative father may file notice that he has initiated paternity proceedings with the State Registrar of Vital Statistics, Department of Health.
The putative father must respond to notice of an adoption petition within 30 days, or waive any future right of notice.

Expenses?
Birth parent-
Actual and reasonable legal expenses.
Maternity expenses.
Related medical and hospital costs.
Necessary living expenses.