If a child is adopted in another country, the parents can readopt the child in NYS, which provides a court order recognizing the foreign adoption in NYS. The rules and regulations of the various countries that allow international adoption vary greatly. International Adoption: Many couples adopt children from other countries. This is still considered a private placement adoption. Step-parent Adoption: This is when a single parent with a child or children gets married, and the new spouse (step-parent) adopts the child or children. In these situations, the biological parents of the child choose who will adopt their child. Private Placement Adoption: Any adoption, other than through an agency, is a private placement adoption. TYPES OF ADOPTIONS :Īgency Adoption: This is when the placement of a child for adoption is made through an NYS agency that is licensed and authorized by law to receive and place children for adoption within NYS. The child’s original birth certificate, as well as the entire adoption file, is then sealed and is to be opened only by court order upon a showing of good cause. Note that Surrogate Court judges are also called Surrogates and are defined as such in DOM § 109(3).Īn adopted child acquires all the same legal rights, obligations, and duties as a biological child.Īfter adoption, a new birth certificate is issued that reflects the child’s new surname if it is actually being changed, and names the adopting parents as the parents of that child. All adoptions in NYS must be judicially sanctioned by a judge in either Family Court or Surrogate Court. Both Family Court and Surrogate Court have jurisdiction over adoptions.
Adoption is the legal process whereby a parent or parents take a non-birth child as their own.