Category Archives: Adoption
Interstate Compact For Adoption & Medical Assistance In Maryland
Under Maryland family law, adoption can be a relatively straightforward process. A child without parents — or whose parents renounced their rights — can find a new home through adoptive parents. Furthermore, Maryland offers various programs to provide financial assistance to adopted children, including certain medical benefits and services. The adoption process can become… Read More »
Maryland Rules For Adoption Search, Contact & Reunion Services
When a person goes through the process of adoption in Maryland, it can sever the connection to biological parents and siblings. But once an adopted individual reaches the age of 21 years old, Maryland family law allows them to engage in search, contact, and reunion services. These services can help adopted individuals reconnect with… Read More »
What Is The Maryland Approach To Independent Adoption?
Maryland family law includes provisions to govern numerous methods of adoption. In many cases, private child placement agencies handle prospective adoptions. Though independent adoption provides a different route, typically requiring consent from the child’s birth parents. Returning to the topic at hand, please find below a breakdown of important considerations for independent adoptions under… Read More »
Adoption Of A Child Through A Private Agency In Maryland
Maryland family law provides multiple routes for the adoption of minor children. One such method involves private child placement agencies. Often referred to as private agencies under the law, these organizations help place minor children with appropriate individuals or in a suitable home. To operate as a child placement agency in Maryland, an organization… Read More »
Foster Care & Adoption Under Maryland Family Law
Foster care is an out-of-home placement program that enables the State of Maryland to assume child custody in certain situations. This program delivers short-term care and other services to children subjected to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. As foster care is meant to be a temporary program, foster children are typically returned to their natural… Read More »
What is an Independent Adoption Under Maryland Family Law?
Independent adoption occurs without the assistance of a child placement agency, whether public or private. A common example of independent adoption is when a divorced parent gets remarried. Independent adoption can allow the new spouse to become a parent by adopting their partner’s child. Eligibility for Independent Adoption Maryland Code of Family Law Section… Read More »
Dissecting 3 Variations of Adoption in Maryland
The Maryland Code of Family Law institutes a multifaceted system of rules and regulations to govern the process of child adoption. These rules and regulations exist to safeguard the best interests of any children involved as well as protect parental rights from unreasonable interference. There are three types of adoption under Maryland state law:… Read More »
How Does Maryland Family Law Address Nonconsensual Adoptions?
Maryland family law generally recognizes a parent’s right to maintain custody over their children. In most circumstances, a parent must abandon their child or provide consent in order for an adoption to happen. In other situations, however, it is possible for the Maryland courts to place a child for adoption without parental consent. Though… Read More »
The Mutual Consent Voluntary Adoption Registry in Maryland
Even though Maryland adoption laws safeguard the best interests of the children involved, there are cases where natural relatives want to reunite at a later point. That is why Maryland created the Mutual Consent Voluntary Adoption Registry (the “Adoption Registry”). Created by legal statute, this registry facilitates the exchange of confidential information between natural… Read More »
What is an Independent Adoption in Maryland?
Orphanages and foster homes tend to dominate any discussion concerning adoption. Whether state-funded or privately run, these facilities house and care for a large number of orphaned children across Maryland and the United States. But those facilities are not the only source for prospective adoption in Maryland. Many adoptions occur outside of the orphanage… Read More »
