13. Termination Of Parental Rights & Adoption

Question 1

What are the types of termination?

Answer 1

Voluntary termination
- In preparation for adoption

Involuntary termination

• Serious harm
• Abandonment
• Negligence/Deprivation
• Mental illness
• Parent unfitness

Question 2

What are the types of adoption

Answer 2

Agency placements

Private adoption

Question 3

What is required for adoption?

Answer 3

1) Termination of biological parents’ rights
- Biological parents’ consent
- Unmarried father’s consent (actively involved)
- UNLESS abandoned child/failed support for certain time/never attempted relationship

2) Creation of new parents’ rights
- Adoptee’s consent (UNLESS very young age)
- Investigate Adoptee’s new home (UNLESS relative adoption)
- NOT pay money to biological parents (UNLESS medical costs of pregnancy)