Adoption in Idaho
People often think of adoption in terms of a married couple, unable or not wanting to have a child of their own, adopting a child from a unwed mother. While this does happen regularly, there are also other reasons why and when a child can be adopted.
Divorce and remarriage are a good example of when a child might be adopted. If a couple gets a divorce and one parent no longer wants anything to do with the child, the new spouse may adopt the child. When a family member has a child and is unable to care for it, is another example where adoption might be an option. Another example of a frequently occurring situation is grandparents adopting their grandchild because the parents are unable to care for the child. Both the example of the grandparents adopting a grandchild and the example of the family member adopting a child can also be dealt with by using a guardianship, if the need for the family member to act as parent is for a short or limited duration.
All adoptions have some elements in common. There must be a termination of parental rights, before the adoptive parent or parents can legally be the parent. We have all heard of the horror stories of unwed mothers giving their child up for adoption, the couple that takes the child and loves the child as their own, only to find out that the father's rights were never properly terminated and therefore the child is not legally theirs.
In the process of adoption there is also a home study done to ensure that the adoptive parents are fit to be parents. This is done even if the birth mother has hand picked the adoptive parents. Attorneys who practice adoption law can give you a detailed list of how events occur in an adoption. There may be slight differences if the adoption is pursuant to a divorce, a foreign adoption or an adoption where there is an unwed mother and there can be difficulties that arise, such as a father not wanting to terminate his parental rights but for the most part adoption is a fairly standard legal process.
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