Mother giving up rights

I have PM'd a member who has some experience with this type of question.
hopefully she may be able to assist.

You should most certainly talk to an attorney, however. Just to cover all your bases.

If you begin the adoption process your lawyer will submitt the appropriate peaperwork to her for her to sign to get things going. She'll have to sign it in front of a notary and then the judge will use that paperwork as well as your application for adoption as a basis to terminate her parental rights and grant you the adoption.

She can't just terminate her rights on a whim. Unless the State is stepping in here and claiming she is an unfit mother most judges aren't going to terminate her rights without someone else stepping into her place.

Talk to your attorney about this. Use the telephone. If your attorney does not know anything about the GA adoption process, find a different attorney.

I take it that your husband is the biological father of the child and that will help, I think - because there shouldn't be any problems with him taking the baby home from the hospital.

I imagine that your situation is very much like a step-parent adoption. You need to start the adoption process, file the right papers, have a home study done, etc. Once that process is started she can sign to have her rights to the child terminated. (My neice just went through this and it was pretty quick and inexpensive.)

I wouldn't even dream of undertaking an adoption without an attorney glued to my side. Everyone thought our adoption (very different circumstances than yours) would be "so easy". It wasn't. It was hard. It took years. It was worth it.

You have a big heart, welcoming this child into your home. Lucky baby!

Congratulations and best of luck to all of you.

We're here to hold your hand if you need it.

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I'm just here to say "I told you so" if you don't follow our sage advice and things go wrong. Like a Greek chorus, but neither as hairy nor melodious.