Law -- Adoptions

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* General -- Family Information#Adopting/Becoming Adopted

beYou Adoptions are processed by any active beYou Lawyer. Lawyers can be found by either visiting the adboards at main beYou sim and seeing who is online on the lawyer boards or by using the profession search feature on the website to see which lawyers have been active in the past few days at: https://www.beyouworld.com/searchProfessionals?professionName=Lawyer

**NOTE**: The web search will not tell you who is online at the time of your search; just who's been online recently.

To search other professions you can use the navigation menu and select Professions --> Search Professionals. From here you simply select the desired one and click Search.

## Adopting/Becoming Adopted

To adopt or become adopted in beYou, you must see a beYou Lawyer.

Before requesting an adoption, make sure the following conditions are met:

* The adopted party should not be a part of another family as they will be adopted into the parent's family.
* All parties should have their current login (aka user) name connected to their beYou account.\*

\***NOTE**: This applies to premium SL members who have recently changed their username. If they have and haven't updated their beYou logins to their current username.

Once the form has been submitted by your lawyer, you will need to go to your family tab (on your beYou profile page) and confirm the application process. Adoption applications take approx. 5 days to be fully processed.

After the adoption application completes, all parties involved will receive a prim in SL to signify the adoption. This prim will look like a adoption certificate and can be set up to show your adoption details using a fulfillment code. This code is generated at the time your adoption completes and is available on the family tab of your profile by clicking the blue buttons at the bottom or through your lawyer.

## Processing an Adoption Application

If you are an active beYou Lawyer, you will purchase forms from an educator on the markets. Once purchased, they will automatically be added to your assets based. This will then allow you to submit these forms on your lawyer page on the main beYou website.

### How to Process Adoption Form (Web Form)

If you want to adopt you must first find a Lawyer who can process the application for you (if you are not already an active Lawyer in beYou).

On the website, Navigate to the Law hyperlink under Professions click on the Adoptions tab (you will need to scroll to mid page) click on the New Adoption button. Fill all required fields on the form.

**Lawyer Key**: Auto-filled, cannot change.

**Lawyer Name:** Auto-filled, cannot change.

**Parent Name:** The name of the main parent (Must have a family name started or be in a family)

**Spouse Name:** (Optional) A second parent name (Must be in the SAME family as Parent1)

**Child Name:** The name of the child being adopted (Must **NOT** be in any family)

When typing the names of the people involved, please allow the form to auto-lookup the names matching what you are typing. This will ensure you get the correct spelling of all names involved. The auto lookup will start working after at least 3 characters are typed.

**All parties involved, will need to go into the beYou Profile page once the application is submitted and hit Confirm**. Failure of **ANY** party to confirm the request will result in the application **not processing completely**.

#### Spelling

* Please make sure to enter the names correctly. As you begin typing the user's name (or the family name) it will automatically start providing names that match. Be sure to select from the list to ensure proper spelling. If an invalid name is entered it will not process the application.

#### Confirmations

* **All** parties will have to visit their profile on the beYou website (http://www.beyouworld.com/me) and confirm the request. Without this **confirmation from all parties involved**, **the request will not process** and will retain the status of "Unconfirmed".

#### Fulfilment Code

* Once processed, the adoption certificate will be available as a gift on the user's profile page. The fulfillment code will be generated and will be visible on the family section of your profile page. The lawyer who processes the application will also have this code available if needed by the client.

Application processing times are based on the lawyer level. Expect 5 days for level 0. This will get faster as the level goes up.

##### Adoption Tips

1. If there is no family already started, your family will need to come up with a family name and you will need to decide who will be the head of household.   The Head of household will need to create the family name  (here https://www.beyouworld.com/me#family-info)
2. Make sure your family members did not create another family name on accident and if they did, have them leave the family.  The head of household should create the family. beYou does not allow 2 existing family names to be joined, they will need to abandon any created name to be added to your family name.
3. If adding the adoptee to an already established family name, talk with your family and let them know that you will be taking action to adopt.  **All BeYou applications can not go through unless they are accepted by ALL parties on the form**.
4. If adding the adoptee to an already established family name, the main requestor should be the main parent, in case of divorce child will stay with the main parent. (ie. If you marry into a family and bring your child the head of household should be the spouse on the form)

## Finding Family

If you would like to show yourself as adoptable on our beYou adoption search page, you may change your adoption status via your profile page.

This is just a tool to help you let the world know that you are open to be added to a beYou family and in no way obliges anyone to join a family or adopt someone.