How to Adopt Your Grandchild - 4 Basic Elements Is your grandchild in need of a permanent home? Think you might be qualified to adopt your grandchild? Here are the 4 requirements for grandparent adoption in Alabama: In order to adopt your …
What You Need to Know About the Foster Care Law System
Foster Care: a System of Safety Foster care is a complicated process. The law requires specific steps to happen in the foster care system. The system is built to be a temporary safety net for children. Each case is different, but at its root, the …
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What is a Home Study? Everything You Need to Know
What is a Home Study? Briefly put, a home study refers to a social worker investigating a home to determine if it is a suitable place for a child. I understand that the thought of someone coming into your home and “snooping” around may sound a …
The Worst Mistake You Could Make in a Trial
The Worst Mistake You Could Make in a Trial The atmosphere of a trial court seems irreproachable, but you as a foster parent have an integral part to play. Put it this way: If you had a duffle bag full of $100,000 in cash, would you blindly trust …
Disciplining Children: How to Capture Your Child’s Heart
Disciplining Children: How to Capture Your Child's Heart Disciplining children is vitally important. It is one of the most important things a parent can do when raising their child. Den. A. Trumbull, MD states in his article, “Discipline of the …
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The Beautiful Aspects of Adopting Out of Fullness
The Joy of a Mother and Father Adopting Yesterday I got to see, first hand, the joy of a mother and father adopting. The child, around the age of 4 months, didn’t know where he was. And, he didn’t care. All he knew was that his mother was holding …
The Court Has One Important Reason to Grant TPR
The Court Has One Important Reason to Grant TPR Termination of parental rights requires that there are no other viable alternatives to it. In granting TPR, the court takes into account if there could be any other viable alternatives with respect to …
Every Foster Parent Fears the Motion to Continue – Two Things You Need to Know as the Trial Approaches
Every Foster Parent Fears the Motion to Continue. Your Worst Enemy in a TPR Trial. In the science of conflict resolution, delay is always on someone's side. An unscrupulous opposing counsel will often seek a last-minute continuance of the trial on …
One Reason Why Adoption Is Neither Right Nor Wrong
Is it Wrong to Foster with the Goal of Adoption? There is no right or wrong here. Fostering and adoption are very complicated processes with each situation being unique and different. While the desire to adopt is such a great trait to have, the main …
