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We had a homestudy done in az we are now in ok. My husband adopted my first child. but now that we moved and are ready to adopt. we are looking to adopt from 1 to 5 yrs old. we can take mild disabilities. nothing to hard. we already have 4 boys of our own and instead of trying for a girl we have decided we want to adopt. we have been told we have to do a new homestudy but we have also been told that all we have to do is up date our homestudy. please help. i am also wondering we came across something called adoption grants has anbody dealt with this.
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i have found out a bit ago that we can update our homestudy but we do have to do one on our in home. i have contacted ok and we also think we have found the lil girl we want. it is in florida. i have contacted them. they said it should be easy but i have to do that homestudy first. is the homestudy free if done through the state???

mommy2squee

You're going to have to start over with a new homestudy.

While you can just update when you move within a state, each state has it's own requirements, and you will have to contact DHS or an agency, and basicly start from scratch.

sorry.

rtjdk2

i know we are in the last few days of the adoption of my husbands grandson. we are in one state he was from another they had a local social sevice office where we lived come do a homestudy... when we moved to another county after we had him they had to transfer everything over to the county we live in now and do another. you may want to call your agency in which you are going threw to ask them. if your going threw social services for a child who has been taken from their parents or a child who is in foster care you may be required to to have a new homestudy. i have never heard of adoption grants before i will have to look them up. goood luck in your adoption of your new child....:)

jm1970

Home studies are usually free if you are adopting through foster care. You need to call an agency and get an addendum to your study.

You will have to redo physicals, criminal clearances and the like again.

Contact a local agency that works with special needs adoptions!

Jennifer L

I know that getting a homestudy updated is less expensive than completely redoing the homestudy. It depends on the policy in Oklahoma.

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