Quastions About Adopting Sister's baby-Wyoming

[anquam]

Okay, so my sister is pregnant, and wants to give her child to myself and my husband. We are a low income family, and my husband has a felony conviction from 19 years ago. For these two reasons we are very worried about filing for adoption, mainly fear of being denied. Since it is a relative adoption, can we file our own papers and avoid the in-home visit and background check? If we can't, could we just have a notarized letter stating that we have legal guardianship of the child, or do we have to go through the courts for that as well? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ohiogranny]

Any change in legal status will require papers to be filed.

Also, sis didn't conceive this baby alone. Potential dad will have to either sign paternity papers or have a DNA test before agreeing to guardianship (which can be overturned by a parent at some point) or adoption.

You may be able to do a private adoption (again, with dad's consent), but you'll need an attorney for that.

 

[anquam]

The father is willing to sign away rights. I am very thankful for the advice. Could you tell me if we would still have to have the home visit if we went through the private adoption?

 

[ohiogranny]

I don't know. If you hire an attorney I'm sure he can tell you.