Termination If Rights & Adoption

Question 1

Adoption requirements

Answer 1

Terminations if bio patent rights 
-consent 
Creation of new parent rights 
-consent 
-home study 
-payment of $ prohibited 
Adoption records 
-sealed
Consequences of adoption 
-severs rights of bio parents (some states allow inheritance from bio parents)

Question 2

When can state terminate rights

Answer 2

Serious physical harm on a kid
Abandonment 
Neglect
Failure to prove support for a period of time 
Mental health of parent
Parental unfitness 

Note- usually parents can’t seek to terminate he others rights