Forum: Relative Adoption

We have had physical custody and Power of Attorney for our 4 year old niece since Jan. of this year. Her bio-mom is considering letting us adopt her. Our hope is to have her remain involved in the child's life, but her lack of involvement over the last 3 months has not been encouraging. She calls...

I've often heard stories of adult siblings that have taken on the parenting duties for younger siblings when biological parents have passed on, or become unable to care for their children for any reason. Has anyone been through this (either as a sibling parent or a sibling parented by a sibling)? ...

I am the grandmother of two beautiful children, ages 13 and 4. The children were removed from their mother and placed in my temporary care in 2009. In 2010, the mother petitioned to get the kids back, however, because she had not stopped using drugs, I petitioned for legal custody. I was awarded...

I live in MN, my grandson is in foster care in Iowa. I just had hearing to determine guardianship, with decision expected in few weeks. I need info QUICK to put in the final arguments my attorney will submit in a few days. IF anyone has adopted a relative in EITHER of these states, I could use some...

We just found out that a cousin's 7 children are in the foster care system in Kansas & will probably be adopted out. We are looking at adopting her 3 yr old and we live in California. Any pointers?:confused:

I guess the easiest way to explain my situation is to just give some background. I am 26 years old, my wife and I have been married for just over 4 years and have been trying for a while to get pregnant with no success and have made peace with the idea of adopting. Here is where it gets tricky-...

Hi all, Hope someone can help with this. I have "full and complete custody" of my grandson for 2 1/2 years now. We are wanting to adopt him but have no idea what to do. Can anyone help. We are located in Kentucky.

We adopted my husband's biological grandchild because at the time the mother was incapable of raising a child. She has had mental challenges all her life. We have always talked about adoption with our child and have every intention of telling the child who the birth parents are. The birth mother...

I am giving my Daughter to my Aunt, We are having a lot of problems with adoption this should fall under Relative or Kinship adoption and from everything I have read its shouldn't be to much money and easy to get. But California told her that for that to work u have to place her in foster system. ...

I was recently told by my father that him and his wife will be adopting her two infant grand-children (ages 1.5 and 2.5). They are currently fostering them both. My father is 65 and was supposed to retire this year (which he has postponed). My step-mother is 55 and works a very demanding full-time...

To make a long story short my 20 year sister just found out she is pregnant and is due in November. She does not know who the father is, and does not have a way to contact some of them. She has decided that she wants me and my husband to adopt the baby. We are very excited about this because we...

I don't even know where I should begin. In 1996, my daughter from a previous marriage gave birth to a tiny, premature baby boy. He only weighed 1 lb. 13 oz. at birth but he was very lucky to only have mild autism (Asperger's) and no other lasting effects from his prematurity. Anyway, when he was...

Hello All, My name is John and I am desperately looking for input regarding the situation that my wife and I are in... The History: I am 40 and my wife is 36. We have been married for two years and both agree that we would love to have a baby of our own. We have been going through...

Hello, Does anyone have any experience petitioning to dismiss dependency in WA? A 26 month old relative was taken by CPS about 3 weeks ago and the first hearing is on 8/24. He is currently in 'shelter care'.This child has autism and his access to intensive services decreases at age 3, so...

My Cousins daughter recently had her 2 children taken away by CPS they were in foster care for the past 3 months. My Wife and I are getting them on monday we passed the background check and homestudy. We want to adopt them, so during the past 3 months we have had supervised visitations every other...

Ok So my father just told me that he has a nother baby on the way (this would be number 9 I think may be more) and he and the mother are looking into putting the child up for adoption. I asked him if he woud consider letting me adopt her and he agreeded. My question is what would be the next steep?...

My sisters has two older children that are not living with her because of some things that have happened. She found out she was pregnant and told my mom that she didn't want the baby. I had talked to my mom before about if she didn't want the baby that my husband and I would love to take it. We...

I need a little advise from you adoption experts. Here's the story. My niece had a child 4 years ago. She got pregnant again about a year and a half later, with twins. Married at the time she didn't want them and talked about adoption. My wife and I are 46-45yo and have two older kids, 19-17 and...