Although you may have a plethora of questions as an adoptive parent, there are many resources you can access to find the answers you need to move forward with the process successfully. The more familiar you become with the process, the less daunting it will seem and the more efficiently you can reach finalization. Properly educating yourself can help alleviate obstacles, confusion and delays you may face throughout the process. Discussing your experience with other parents who have adopted, contacting support groups, or reaching out to an experienced adoption attorney can help you better understand your goals and how you can best achieve them.
How does the foster-to-adopt process work?
Kansas provides a number of ways a family can adopt a child, one of which is foster-to-adopt. Foster-to-adopt is a popular and commonly used process of adoption where a foster parent who takes in a child can eventually legally adopt them and care for them permanently. This process, just like any other form of adoption requires termination of parental rights and the foster parents becoming adoptive parents, which legally step into the role as the child