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FAQs

What happens to the adoption records?

Do biological grandparents have any rights after an adoption?

Is the natural father's consent to the adoption necessary?

We are a childless couple and have a chance to obtain an infant if we pay lots of money upfront. Is it legal?

Is a father’s consent required if the child was the result of rape or incest?

What changes are made in birth certificates?

What happens in the case of a missing parent or an abandonment?

What about federal tax benefits for adoption?

Is a child’s consent necessary?

What is ‘adoption’ in a legal sense?

What is step-parent adoption?

What is ‘equitable adoption’ or ‘adoption by estoppel?’

What is a second-parent adoption?

What is a two-parent adoption?

Can a single, straight person adopt?

Can homosexuals adopt?

Must the child be a minor to be adopted?

When is a natural parent ‘unfit’, so as to allow adoption without his/her consent?

What is an adoption agency?

What are the steps in a typical adoption?

Must an adoption be handled through an adoption agency?

What happens with a child using a surrogate mother?

What is an ‘open adoption?’

Are there hassles in international adoption?

Can the natural parent or the adoptive parent change his/her mind after adoption?

What documents need to be provided for an international adoption?

What grounds may adoption be challenged?

Does a foreign-born child adopted by a u.s. citizen automatically become a us citizen?



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» International
» Grandparents
» Black market
» Birth certificate
» Taxes
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