Adoption Laws
Adoption Laws
What is Adoption?
Adoption is the legal process of permanently placing a child with a parent (Other than the birth mother or father). Adoption is the process of transferring parental responsibilities and rights of the birth parents to the adaptive parents. After completion of all legal activities of adoption, there is no difference between adopted children and those born to the parents.
In most cases, adoption process depends on the decision of birth mother or both parents, whether they want or not to place the child for adoption. They are free to choose the family for their child adoption.
There are many types of adoption by effect (e.g., open adoption or closed adoption) and by location and origin of the child (international or domestic child).
Adoption by effect:
- Open Adoption: In this type, the adopted person can access their original records or files. But there may be certain rules to have this right - e.g., at age 18 etc.
- Semi Open Adoption: In this type, after some meeting, there must not be any physical contact between the birth parent and the adoptive parents. Third party can exchange the letters and pictures between them.
- Closed Adoption: In this type, no information is shared between birth party and adoptive party. Only non-identifying information such as medical history shared between the parties involved
Adoption by origin of the child:
- Domestic Adoption: In this case, the birth parents, the adoptive parents and the adoptive child, all are living within US.
- Intercountry Adoption: If birth family and adopting family live in different countries, then it is called an intercounrty adoption.
Below listed links provides you the information about adoption laws, and you can get the required information on the adoption law in the different US states just by clicking the respective state name.