I am recently remarried and wish to adopt my spouses child(ren) from a prior marriage; what is required to accomplish this?
The “step-parent adoption” is very common. It involves the same basic procedure as in any other adoption. For example, if a child is being adopted by her step-father (who is married to her biological mother), the couple files a Petition in Court asking for the adoption to be granted. The biological mother, in this example, manifests her consent to the adoption simply by signing the Petition along with the step-father. In many cases, the other biological parent (the biological father in this example) is in agreement with the adoption and will sign an appropriate Consent. Sometimes, that biological parent is unwilling to give such consent; in those cases, the petitioning couple would have to decide whether they have a reasonable chance of proving that the non-consenting biological parent is “unfit” (for example, by having failed to maintain a reasonable degree of interest, concern or responsibility as to the welfare of the child over a substantial period of time). If they can make a clea
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