I’m born in Illinois and adopted. Illinois is one of very few states that will not allow adoptee’s the right to their adoption records. To get help from a geneological society I have to be able to tell them my parents names, which I can’t get without my adoption record.
I am researching my great great grandfather who came to Indianana on an Orphan train sometime in the 1860′s. The question I am trying to answer is if the name we have is his birth name or his adopted name. This would depend on the Adoption laws, if even in existance at the time he came into Indiana.
I am 20 years old, and I want to be adopted. The family that wants to adopt me lives in Ohio. However, if under Ohio law I am not eligible to be adopted as an adult, can we have the adoption in another state—even if we are not residents of that state?
If an adoption took place in the court in the State of Maine in the late ’60′s would that make it an opened or a closed one?
I been researching online for state law in my state for adoption. The ones showing up for adoption from other people. But I am trying to search on is my boyfriend (engaged to get married) want to adopt my three children. Their dad are deadbeat dad. I am looking something that i can find out the process how long would we need to be together before he allowed to adopt them. Or anything else. How do I search something like that.
Thanks
Considering the adoption process and don’t know where to start. Thanks