Step-Parent Adoption
Four requirements of third-party adoptions are eliminated or waived by Section 63-9-1110 of South Carolina Code of Laws for step-parent adoptions; these eliminations and waivers are subject to the discretion of the court.
- Unlike third-party adoptions, step-parent adoptions require no investigation or report on the adoptive parent nor background reports on the biological parents. This greatly reduces the time and money spent on the adoption.
- The requirement of an accounting of all money spent on the adoption is eliminated.
- The court may waive the requirement that the final hearing must not be held before ninety days after the filing of the adoption petition. Waiving this ninety day waiting period obviously moves the adoption process forward more quickly.
- The court may also waive the appointment of independent counsel for an indigent parent. This waiver also reduces the time spent on the adoption process.
My daughter's biological father was removed from this country for being a non-citizen and committing a felonious crime. Due to his crime he isn't allowed to have contact with her till her 18th birthday in 2018. They have had no contact due to an order of protection from the Department of Social Services as stated in 2001 when we (my daughter and I were released from their care. With that happening will we need his "permission" for my husband and the only father my daughter has ever known to adopt her?
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