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My wifes brother and ex gf are about to have a child neither can be responsible for. He is willing to give up his parental rights to us but my question is if his ex loses her children to social services can my wife adopt the baby since she is the next of kin and her brother wants us to raise it?
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Don't get me wrong I definetly would love to adopt I just want to know what may be in store for us trying to adopt because it will probably be against her will. She has many problems(both legal and mentally) and we would like to give the child a chance at a normal life.


    




Heather Leigh
I am concerned with the way you worded this and maybe it is just an over-site on your part, but do you want to adopt this child or is it just your wife? Being a married couple, I believe the adoption would need to be completed by both of you.

My husband and I adopted our son and it was considered a "relative placement" even though neither of us were related to him. He is a distant cousin to my biological children. His father is my ex-husband's cousin.

The best thing to do if each of you are interested is to notify Child Protective Services immediately if the child is placed in Foster care. But understand that even if CPS removes the child from his mother's care it does not automatically mean she will lose her parental rights. She will have certain requirements that she has to fulfill and a time frame to do this.


jm1970
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You would have to be cleared (a home study, criminal background check, physical). Provided you have no serious criminal history and no protective services history they will consider you and any other family that come forward...

Do yourself a favor....before you get all attached to this baby. Get a DNA test. I cannot tell you how many people I have seen think they are related to a baby through the father and oops! He's not the daddy. Don't take her word for it....DNA test!


Pregnant_mechanic
You would have to go through the same process as any adoptive parent. I know here in Canada preference is given to kin...it's called "Kin Care Adoption" But I don't know what it's like where you are from.

Good Luck!





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