But it can also be complicated, requiring completion of numerous detailed steps and extensive paperwork. Attorney Courtney Kaisand understands the adoption process and assists step-parents and grandparents in adoptions. She does not arrange adoptions or assist in locating adoptable children.
The most common type of private adoption (as opposed to an agency adoption) is a step-parent adoption, in which one spouse legally adopts the biological child of the other spouse. The parental rights of the other biological parent are then terminated. In a grandparent adoption, the parental rights of both the biological parents must be terminated.
