---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 14942"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "14942"
heading: "Documents of other Convention countries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/14942"
units:
  - "Chapter 143 — Intercountry Adoptions"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administration and Enforcement"
---

# §14942. Documents of other Convention countries


Documents originating in any [other Convention country](/usc/42/14902.md?p=13) and related to a [Convention adoption](/usc/42/14902.md?p=10) case shall require no authentication in order to be admissible in any Federal, [State](/usc/42/14902.md?p=17), 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.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–279, title IV, § 402, Oct. 6, 2000, 114 Stat. 841.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

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 Pub. L. 106–279, set out as an Effective Dates; Transition Rule note under section 14901 of this title.