Parties to an Adoption

Series Title: State Statutes Series 2004

Author(s): National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

Year Published: 2004

This briefing reviews State laws regarding parties to an adoption. General information dealing with who may adopt, who may be adopted, and who may place a child for adoption is identified. Gay and lesbian adoption is addressed briefly. The print version of this resource is current through March 2004.

In order for an adoption to take place, a person available to be adopted must be placed in the home of a person or persons eligible to adopt. All States, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Virgin Islands have laws that specify which persons are eligible as adopting parents and which persons can be adopted. In addition, most States, the District of Columbia, and the territories have laws that designate which persons or entities have the authority to make adoptive placements. ...

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