What are the rights of the birth family and the adopted family?

Question

?

Answer 1

Depends on what country your in...as far as I know though the birth family have no rights at all but tha edoptive family do.  Sounds fair when you think about it though, coz the adoptive family may not want the child to know, and then one nice day the birth family turns up on the doorstep!!

Answer 2

There are no legal rights after the papers are signed. Period.

You're signing a piece of paper that states that your are willingly and feely relinquishing legal parental rights to/for your child. That means you have no legal rights whatsoever. That child is no longer yours or your concern---legally speaking of course.

Answer 3

depends on how you adopted...

Some kids adopted through CPS the parents will allow adoption  but retain the right to contact with child or a yearly visit and this would all be stipulated in the adoption paper work.

If there was no stipulation to anything than they have no rights and long as it was done legally, no problems..

Answer 4

If it's a closed adoption, than they get no rights.  When the child turns 18, he or she (in most states) is still not allowed any info on the birth family.

You really should be looking online and in books to help you with this project.  It is the best way to find answers instead of just posting questions here.

Answer 5

if you make an adoption plan...open or closed, the birthparents do not have any legal rights....if it is the intention to have an open adoption, then it is in the paper work, and a judge will concider it and the current circumstances....i am a birthparent of a daughter that i adopted out through open adoption, and if they felt that it was not in "their child's" best interest to have contact with me then there is not much i can do about it....i do think, though, that an unbiased judge would look into it and concider the circumstances before ruling that their opinion is valid....also, adoptive parents have to take into concideration that 9 times out of 10 if a biological mother wants her child back and fights for it....she will get her child back....so it is more of a trust issue for both sides...just a note: i would never fight for my child back   she has bonded with them...also, they would never keep her from me as she has formed a unique relationship with me, but really, there are no rights for birth parents

Answer 6

I repeat other poster.

Adopted family has all the rights.

Birth family has none.

Even in states that have laws that enforce the open adoption contract, the courts don't actually do it and oftentimes, the adopting family just moves to another state.

Answer 7

Once the adoption is final, bio parents have NO rights!

Answer 8

The birth family should let the adoptive family know they are open to contact whenever the child or adoptive family thinks they want it. Otherwise, don't disrupt the household.

Answer 9

Once the adoption is finalised the birth parents have no rights what so ever and the adoptive parents then have all rights!

Hope this helps!

Answer 10

Once a baby is given up for adoption, and the papers are signed, the birth family has no rights.  The adopted family has all the rights as if they had birthed the child themselves.

Answer 11

As an adoptee i have asked my mom this question before. When the birt parents sign their rights away they can get in trouble for trying to be in tge childs life unless both parties agree on a method of visitation. In my case i was not to know i was adopted untill i was 18 and then i could find my birth family if i wanted to. But open adoption is different. In an open adoption the child knows of their birth parents but knows their adopted parents as mom and dad.

Answer 12

The adoptive parents become the sole legal parents with all rights and responsibilities. The birth parents relinquish all parental rights and responsibilities.

Adoption is the actual transfer of parenthood, totally and permanently. It is an enormous undertaking from an emotional and ethical standpoint,  and therefore should never be entered into, from either side, lightly and without a great deal of thoughtful consideration and examination of possible future consequences.

Answer 13

When a biological parent terminates or relinquishes their parental rights - they no longer have any rights to the child.  

Once the child is adopted, the adoptive family has all rights to the child just as if it they had given birth to the child.  More importantly, though, the child also has all the rights of a biological child, including inheritance laws, etc.

Answer 14

You might find the Evan B Donaldson Adoption institute helpful.  They just released a report about safeguarding the rights of birthparents that would be a good read.

Answer 15

adopted family has all rights

birth family has none.

Answer 16

When someone is adopted their birth parents sign away their parental rights or their rights are terminated by the courts.   The couple or person that adopts the child takes on full Parental rights, they are now legally the adopted child's parents. Seen no different then a child that was birthed to the couple or person.

Not even in open adoption do birth parents have rights.  

Birth parents only have a window of opportunity that they can get their child back if they want too. They cant decided 3 years later well I want my birth child back, isn’t going to happen unless the adoption process was not done right. This is why it’s vitally important if your going to adopt to make sure it has been done 100% right.  The timeframe in the window of opportunity varies from state to state. Either way once that window has closed the birth parent can never get their birth child back. Unless again there was something wrong with the adoption processes.