231 Pa. Code r. 15.2
In addition to the terms and definitions provided in Rule 1.3, the following words and phrases when used in Chapter XV shall have the following meaning:
"Adopted Child" or "Adopted Individual" "__ any individual for whom a decree of adoption has been entered in accordance with 23 Pa.C.S. § 2902 after a hearing, or in accordance with the laws of another country or state of a similar import;
"Adoptee" "__ an individual as defined in 23 Pa.C.S. § 2102;
"Agency" " __an entity or organization providing adoption services as defined in 23 Pa.C.S. § 2102 or 23 Pa.C.S. § 2732, as applicable;
"Authorized Representative" " __an individual as defined in 23 Pa.C.S. § 2911 trained by the Department to handle certain requests for identifying information and to search for the subject of the request as necessary;
"Birth Relative" "__an individual as identified in 23 Pa.C.S. § 2732;
"Child" " __an adoptee or adopted individual who is a minor, or the individual whose parent's rights are the subject of a termination proceeding;
"Clerk" " __the clerk or department as defined in 23 Pa.C.S. § 2102;
"Contact Agreement" " __a voluntary written agreement between a Prospective Adoptive Parent and a birth relative that is executed and approved by the court in accordance with 23 Pa.C.S. §§ 2731et seq. and provides for continuing post-adoption contact or communication between the adopted child and the birth relative or between the adoptive parent and the birth relative;
"Court" "__the division of the Court of Common Pleas conducting any proceeding under the Adoption Act;
"Department" " __the Department of Human Services of the Commonwealth;
"Intermediary" " __any person or agency arranging an adoption placement as defined in 23 Pa.C.S. § 2102;
"Minor" " __a person who has not attained 18 years of age;
"Presumptive Father" " __the man married to the child's mother at any time during the one-year period prior to the child's birth;
"Prospective Adoptive Parents" " __individuals with whom the adoptee has been placed for the purpose of adoption, or who have filed a report of intention to adopt under 23 Pa.C.S. § 2531;
"Putative Father" "__an alleged birth father whose parental status has not been legally established and who is not a presumptive father;
"Statement of medical, personal, or social history infor-mation" " __the information concerning an adopted individual or the birth family of an adopted individual as set forth in 23 Pa.C.S. §§ 2102, 2911. The Rules in this Chapter use the term "statement of medical, personal, or social history information" because the Adoption Act refers to these statements in varying ways. Compare23 Pa.C.S. §§ 2503(e), 2504(d), 2511(c) with 23 Pa.C.S. §§ 2923, 2934.
231 Pa. Code r. 15.2