An adult adoption is possible if you have lived with the adult adoptee for 2 years. I would need more details on your relationship with the birth...

While I cannot answer definitively odds are you are still adopted. Adoption is forever and the juvenile courts may take custody and appoint DCFS...

Part of an adoption is the court making a Best Interest finding (that your husband is of good character and it is in the child's best interest to...

This is really fairly common as I have completed a lot of these adult adoptions. The tricky part is your stepfather and mother are the ones who...

In IL, if you are not related to the prospective adoptive parents, then you have to have lived with them continuously for two years. Our law...

It depends, the parents could consent to the adoption or they could be defaulted after service, or they could choose to contest the adoption (fight...

Absolutely you can do this and the process in Cook County is pretty straightforward and right now court appearances are by Zoom. I have handled...

You do not need to be legally married to adopt, I have handled a lot of these kinds of adoptions in Cook County. The birth father's rights would...

No, if the two females are not married, then she cannot signing a document under oath and penalties of perjury asserting herself as the parent of...

You and your husband will need to file a Petition for Adoption. You can file it in any county in Illinois. The child will have a Guardian ad...