The step-parent adoption laws are designed for just this exact situation, where a child's step-parent needs to be acknowledged as the true legal...

In order for your husband to adopt your daughter, he will want to consider filing a step parent adoption petition. I can not ascertain all the...

Will I be notified once my daughter's adoption is completed?

No. Here's what I presume from our question: you're the child's father, and you signed a NC DSS-1802 form...

How do my wife and I change my step daughters last name to our last name?

In order to give your step-daughter your last name, you will want to consider filing a step parent adoption petition. If successful, in the end,...

In support of what Attorney Haas has already written, know this: The division between you and your biological parents is final and complete. The...

The adoption should be filed in North Carolina, in the county where you have lived for at least the last six months.. The fact pattern that you...

How do we go bout this situation?

In order to avoid DSS intervention (and the loss of choice for birth mother), it is essential that your sister hire a competent adoption lawyer...

The fact pattern that you describe is the fundamental basis for NC’s step-parent adoption statute. Assuming that you and your husband have been...

When you write that your wife filed papers, I assume you mean that your wife filed a Petition for Adoption. At the time you filed the petition, you...

Step parent adoption

The fact pattern that you describe is the fundamental basis for NC’s step-parent adoption statute. Assuming that you and your husband have been...