{"id":6192,"date":"2017-02-16T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/?p=6192"},"modified":"2017-02-16T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T16:52:13","slug":"adopting-child-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/adopting-child-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopting a Child in Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/attorneys\/joseph-g-ballstaedt\">Joseph G. Ballstaedt<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Adoption became a recognized legal practice in the United States <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/adoption\/timeline.html\">back in 1851<\/a>, when Massachusetts passed the Adoption of Children Act, which recognized adoption as a legal means to improve child welfare. Recent studies estimate that about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.childwelfare.gov\/pubs\/adopted0708\/\">135,000 children<\/a> are adopted in America every year, with about 900 of those adoptions occurring in Idaho. The process to adoption in Idaho is explained in Idaho\u2019s own <a href=\"https:\/\/legislature.idaho.gov\/statutesrules\/idstat\/title16\/t16ch15\/\">Adoption of Children Act<\/a>. A major goal of this Act is to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/legislature.idaho.gov\/statutesrules\/idstat\/Title16\/T16CH15\/SECT16-1501A\/\">stable and permanent homes<\/a> for adoptive children in a prompt manner.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"LTR\" align=\"LEFT\">Under the Idaho <a href=\"https:\/\/legislature.idaho.gov\/statutesrules\/idstat\/title16\/t16ch15\/\">Adoption of Children Act<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/legislature.idaho.gov\/statutesrules\/idstat\/Title16\/T16CH15\/SECT16-1501\/\">any adult can adopt<\/a> a minor under the process explained in the Act, and an adult can adopt another adult where the adopting adult acted as the parent for a period of a year prior to the adoptee becoming an adult or for a period a court determines establishes &#8220;a substantial family relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/adopting-child-idaho\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Adopting a Child in Idaho\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joseph G. Ballstaedt Adoption became a recognized legal practice in the United States back in 1851, when Massachusetts passed the Adoption of Children Act, which recognized adoption as a legal means to improve child welfare. Recent studies estimate that about 135,000 children are adopted in America every year, with about 900 of those adoptions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adopting a Child in Idaho|Racine Olson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"By Joseph G. 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