All Topics in Adoption Legal Resource Center

• Adoption
• Types of Adoption
  • Independent Adoptions
  • Identified Adoptions
  • Agency Adoptions
  • Open Adoptions
  • International Adoptions
  • Facilitated and Intermediary Adoptions
• Who May Adopt
  • Family Member Adoptions
    • Stepparent Adoption
  • Non-Family Member Adoptions
    • Foster Parent Adoption
• Who May Be Adopted
  • Foster Care Adoptions
• Adoption Procedures for Adoptive Parents
  • Appealing a Denial of an Adoption Petition
  • Amending a Birth Certificate After Adoption
• Information for Biological Parents
  • How to Place a Child for Adoption
• Termination of Parental Rights
  • Abandonment Leading to Termination of Parental Rights
  • Willful Failure to Support a Child Leading to Termination of Parental Rights
• Cost of Adoption
• Contested Adoptions
• Working With an Adoption Lawyer
• Adoption Forms: 50-State Resources
• Adoption FAQs
• Adoption Law Overview
• Adoption Resources
• Adoption Articles
• Adoption Glossary
• Adoption Laws

Last updated October 2018