A Kerrville family law attorney helps families throughout the adoption process, whether that process is agency adoption, private adoption, or stepparent adoption.
ack in the day, almost all adoptions were agency adoptions. Now, most adoptions are still agency adoptions, but the proportion is smaller. Agency adoptions are often attractive because the agency handles most of the legwork. Sometimes, the agency does its job too well, and the adopting family feels left out of the conversation. A Kerrville family law attorney makes sure that doesn’t happen.
Attorneys are even more important during private adoptions. That’s especially true in foreign adoption matters. Technically, these cases are re-adoptions. The family adopts the child in a foreign country then re-adopts the child in Kerr County.
Even more importantly, Texas law contains very specific rules as to how much financial assistance an adopting family may give a birth mother. Paperwork rules are even more specific. Filing a document a few hours too late, or a few hours too early, could undo the adoption. Biological parents who change their minds could later challenge these proceedings in court.
Since the divorce rate is so high, stepparent adoptions are common as well. Basically, a stepparent takes the place of a biological parent. Generally, Kerr County family law judges streamline the stepparent adoption process. For example, many judges waive the social study, if a Kerrville family law attorney makes a formal request in court.