For an adoption license to be granted, the following info must be verified:

• A court’s staff undertakes a thorough abuse and criminal background check on all adults in your household
• Attend training sessions to learn the challenges that neglected children face
• Allow a home study conducted and all your household members should be present
• You should be single, divorced, married or widowed
• Offer non-relative and relative references
• A guardian should be financially stable, responsible and over 20 years old

A child’s adoptive parents should receive genuine copies of the child’s historical records. DPRS, an individual or an approved child-placing agency can maintain them. Once the adopted child matures, together with their foster parents, they should get copies of edited records to protect their biological parents’ identity. 

When a court issues an adoption order, it provides the foster parents with information from the Bureau of Vital Statistics. It describes a voluntary adoption registry’s functions. The report includes the child’s or biological parents’ right not to participate in the adoption registry.

In case you are planning to adopt a child, reach out to LaHood Law. We will provide you with a competent San Antonio family law attorney to help you out. Also, we are passionate about meeting our customers’ needs.